The leaves of the Kells manuscript retain an important place in the Wake, performing a vital role in the key given to the reader to unlock not only Joyce's work, but any text requiring the reader to consider the innumerable layers of significance present in the most accomplished forms of communication. The text by nature of its definition, being ineffable, cannot be expressed in any more reductive fashion than the complex design-motif which merely directs the reader toward the sacred, inclusive of its delineation here. What lies beneath the text, once the reader has traveled through the language and its form, resists the chosen medium with which Finnegans Wake and the Book of Kells require to communicate: yet, the sacred text, in either a spiritual or literary state of reverence, may only express the margins of meaning where the real significance remains profound and ineffable / acase@tulane.edu
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_25825 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Contributors | Johnson, Sabrena May (Author), Kilroy, James (Thesis advisor) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Access requires a license to the Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) database., Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law |
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