- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Citations
- Awakening
- 1 So soft this morning, Ours
- 2 His Reignbolt's Shot
- 3 Respectable
- 4 Nayman of Noland
- 5 Crossmess parzel
- 6 Life's Robulous Rebus
- 7 Three score and ten toptypsical readings
- 8 The Hubbub Caused in Edenborough
- 9 The unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to Warrant our Certitude
- 10 Everybody Heard their Plaint
- 11 Tell Me More
- 12 Loud, Heap Miseries upon us
- 13 The tasks Above are as the Flasks below
- 14 From Liff Away
- 15 The Four of Us and Sure, Thank God, There are No More of Us
- 16 A Picture Primitive
- 17 Lightbreakfastbringer
- 18 Arise, Sir Ghoscus!
- 19 Male and Female Unmask We Hem
- 20 The Keys to. Given!
- 21 Aisy Now, You Decent Man
- Index of Passages
- Index of Names
Aisy Now, You Decent Man
Aisy Now, You Decent Man
- Chapter:
- (p.251) 21 Aisy Now, You Decent Man
- Source:
- Joyce's Kaleidoscope
- Author(s):
Philip Kitcher
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter summarizes the principal ideas that have emerged throughout the chapter-by-chapter reading of Finnegans Wake. It aims to serve both as a helpful guide for those who are approaching Joyce's last novel for the first time and as a detailed elaboration and defense of the book's interpretation. Even more, it hopes to inspire others to undertake their own large-scale readings. Meanwhile, music runs through Joyce's prose, and through the Wake, in particular. It is not simply a matter of the constant eruption of the songs Joyce had heard his father sing, or had sung himself but the use of rhythm to set the mood and of tonal coloring to evoke reactions in his readers.
Keywords: Joyce's prose, Finnegans Wake, Vico, last novel, rhythm
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Citations
- Awakening
- 1 So soft this morning, Ours
- 2 His Reignbolt's Shot
- 3 Respectable
- 4 Nayman of Noland
- 5 Crossmess parzel
- 6 Life's Robulous Rebus
- 7 Three score and ten toptypsical readings
- 8 The Hubbub Caused in Edenborough
- 9 The unfacts, did we possess them, are too imprecisely few to Warrant our Certitude
- 10 Everybody Heard their Plaint
- 11 Tell Me More
- 12 Loud, Heap Miseries upon us
- 13 The tasks Above are as the Flasks below
- 14 From Liff Away
- 15 The Four of Us and Sure, Thank God, There are No More of Us
- 16 A Picture Primitive
- 17 Lightbreakfastbringer
- 18 Arise, Sir Ghoscus!
- 19 Male and Female Unmask We Hem
- 20 The Keys to. Given!
- 21 Aisy Now, You Decent Man
- Index of Passages
- Index of Names
