A discourse on the language of James Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, this thesis engages the roles of particular words in these texts for the purpose of demonstrating Joyce's later poetics. Often these words communicate their own senses, perform their own definitions, and these senses and definitions amount to the subversion of stable meaning. Ultimately these words are a part of language games and Wakean dialectics which constantly outmaneuver reader expectations while simultaneously promoting those expectations. In a manner of speaking, these texts read their readers and, for every hermeneutic a reader attempts to graft onto these texts, the texts say with a smirk, "Yes. I've thought of that already. Guess again." / A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. / Fall Semester, 2003. / August 20, 2003. / James Joyce / Includes bibliographical references. / S. E. Gontarski, Professor Directing Thesis; R. M. Berry, Committee Member; Andrew Epstein, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_180840 |
| Contributors | McFeaters, Andrew V. (authoraut), Gontarski, S. E. (professor directing thesis), Berry, R. M. (committee member), Epstein, Andrew (committee member), Department of English (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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