David Hayman: In the Wake of the Wake

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Titel: In the Wake of the Wake, 1978
Uitgever: Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10: 0-299-07600-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-299-07600-90299076008 / 9780299076009

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This ground-breaking exploration of the influential aura of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake initially appeared as a special issue of TriQuarterly (No. 38, Winter, 1977). Available now in a permanent format, it offers both students and scholars an excellent introduction to major contemporary figures writing within the Joycean tradition. Many of these writers and their works will be new to the American reader, as will the critical essays and interviews.
Students of modern and 'post-modern' literature, along with Joyce scholars, will gain invaluable insights into the international currents stirred by the Wake. Editor David Hayman has provided an introduction which creates an original and sound conceptual framework for the literary selections. Tracing the development of the novel from the wellcrafted work of the Flaubertian tradition to the current 'post-modern' phase, he places the Wake in its historical-literary context as a revolutionary work within a revolutionary tradition. He analyzes the Wake as 'texte scriptible' (writable text), a fluid expression which involves the free-associating creativity of the reader's mind and shows its impact on some of the writers represented in the body of this volume, the brothers de Campos, Samuel Beckett, Arno Schmidt, Philippe Sollers, Maurice Roche.
The literary procedures of the later Joyce permeate every work in the present volume, contributing to a unified text that draws upon significant new writing in Europe, South America, and the United States.
This volume will do much to prove the editor's assertion that Finnegans Wake has remained for too long an acknowledged but unread masterpiece. The interplay of so many works by writers belonging to different traditions but sharing a common post-Wakean impulse is fascinating; their juxtaposition leads to our greater understanding of that impulse and its source. No prior study has offered so broad a range of relevant and innovative texts to students of the flourishing Joycean tradition.

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DAVID HAYMAN Some writers in the wake of the Wake 3
MICHAEL FINNEY Eugene Jolas, transition, and the Revolution of the Word 39
HAROLDO DE CAMPOS Sanscreed latinized: The Wake in Brazil and hispanic America 54
AUGUSTO DE CAMPOS Poem 63
DAVID HAYMAN An interview with Maurice Roche 64
MAURICE ROCHE Funeral cantata 82
HELENE CIXOUS From Partie 95
PHILIPPE SOLLERS From Paradis 101
PHILIPPE SOLLERS Joyce & Co. 107
DAVID HAYMAN An interview with Philippe Sollers 122
ARNO SCHMIDT FromZette/s Traum 142
CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE From Thru 152
SAMUEL BECKETT Fizzle 1 163
RAYMOND FEDERMAN The voice in the closet 168
JOHN CAGE 7 out of 23 174
GILBERT SORRENTINO O'Mara of no fixed abode 179
WILLIAM GASS Koh whistles up a wind 191