The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake

by Eric McLuhan

The study establishes the nature and aims of Finnegans Wake as Menippean satire and interprets the Wake in that light. McLuhan examines Joyce's use of language, and in particular his use of ten hundred-lettered words (thunderclaps).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802009239
• ISBN13: 9780802009234
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"