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Annotations to Finnegans Wake

McHugh, Roland

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Long considered the essential guide to Joyce's famously difficult work, Roland McHugh's Annotations to "Finnegans Wake" provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. Each page of the Annotations corresponds directly with a page of the standard Viking/Penguin edition of Finnegans Wake and contains line-by-line notes following the placement of the passages to which they refer. The reader can thus look directly from text to notes and back again, with no need to consult separate glossaries or other listings.

McHugh's richly detailed notes distill decades of scholarship, explicating foreign words, unusual English connotations and colloquial expressions, place names, historical events, song titles and quotations, parodies of other texts, and Joyce's diverse literary and popular sources. The third edition has added material reflecting fifteen years of research, including significant new insights from Joyce's compositional notebooks (the "Buffalo Notebooks"), now being edited for the first time.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 648 pages
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press (Dec. 31st, 2005)
ISBN-10: 0801883822
ISBN-13: 9780801883828
Dimensions: 7.10 x 10.00 x 1.38 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.43 lbs

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4 out of 5

by Lane from Chattanooga, TN | Jun 30, 2009

I've looked at a lot of guides to Finnegan's Wake, and this is by far, my favorite if only because it is the only guide that allows you to read Joyce (relatively) straight through. McHugh gives us a single page for each page of the Wake with line-by-line annotations covering suggested translations, puns, allusions, and historical references. As McHugh explains in the preface, "the reader examining any of Joyce's pages simply holds the Annotations page alongside it and examines the area corresponding to the passage" (vi). The annotations are culled from dozens of critical works by several Joyce scholars and McHugh avoids unnecessary exegesis.

Rather than read a pile of traditional guides to the Wake, get this volume and read Joyce as he intended.
4 out of 5

by Roland from The United States | Apr 11, 2008

Unlike the Ulysses annotations, you definitely do need the original to use this. It is not so much a book that you can read for your own pleasure, but a tool to figure out as much as you can from Finnegans Wake. The layout is great because each page corresponds to that in "Wake," but it can get damn cumbersome to have to keep darting your eyes back and forth between two books.
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