Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake by Colleen Jaurretche HARDBACK

University Press of Florida

Language As Prayer in Finnegans WakeAuthor(s): Colleen Jaurretche\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Florida, United States\nImprint: University Press of Florida\nISBN-13: 9780813066370, 978-0813066370\nSynopsis\nThis innovative analysis shows how James Joyce uses the language of prayer to grapple with profoundly human ideas in Finnegans Wakethe dreamlike masterpiece that critics have called his \""book of the night.\"" Colleen Jaurretche moves beyond what scholars know about how Joyce composed this work to suggest why he wrote and arranged it as he [url] provides a sequential reading of the four chapters and corresponding themes of the Wake from the perspective of prayer. She examines image, manifested by the letters of the alphabet and the Book of Kells; magic, which Joyce equates with the workings of language; dreams, which he relates to poetry; and speech, glorified in the Wake for its potential to express emotions and ecstasy. Jaurretche also delves into writings ab.