FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JAMES JOYCE
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it prevents exploration of the unconscious
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it obscures the characters’ immediate thoughts
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it allows for the introduction of plot snippets and new language
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it makes the readers’ experience of the characters less intimate
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Detailed explanation-1: -Finnegans Wake introduction. 1) If Ulysses is a book of the day, then Finnegans Wake is a book of the night. One way to approach the text is to consider it as a dream. The narrative operates like a dream: it is full of distortion, fragmentation, and sudden and unexplained shifts in the story.
Detailed explanation-2: -Finnegans Wake is a complex novel that blends the reality of life with a dream world. The motive idea of the novel, inspired by the 18th-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico, is that history is cyclical. To demonstrate this, the book ends with the first half of the first sentence of the novel.
Detailed explanation-3: -James Joyce once famously said that if it took him seventeen years to write Finnegans Wake, then a reader should take seventeen years to read it. In his usual prophetic way, he turned out to be exactly right.
Detailed explanation-4: -James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake doesn’t work like other novels. It has lines like, “What clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishy-gods!” In some ways, this makes the book almost impossible to read. H.G. Wells told Joyce, “You have turned your back on common men-on their elementary needs …