Semiotic Perturbations: What The Frog's Eye Tells Us About Finnegans Wake
- ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Dr.. Mark Nunes, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- Appalachian State University (ASU )
- Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
Abstract: Finnegans Wake presents a semiotic dilemma for the reader: How is it that the Wake means anything? And, Why doesn't it mean everything? To gesture, somewhat metonymically, toward the Wake itself: It is told in sounds in utter that, in signs so adds to, in universal, in polygluttural, in each auxiliary neutral idiom, sordomutics, florilingua, sheltafocal, flayflutter, a con's cubane, a pro's tutute, strassarab, ereperse and anythongue athall. [FW 117.12-16] As such, Finnegans Wake lays bare the dilemma of semiotics in general: that is, the problem of signification and indeterminacy of meaning.
Semiotic Perturbations: What The Frog's Eye Tells Us About Finnegans Wake
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- Publication
- Nunes, M. (2004). "Semiotic Perturbations: What The Frog's Eye Tells Us About Finnegans Wake." Hypermedia Joyce Studies 5.1 (2004). Version of record available at: http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/archives/v3/nunes.html
- Language: English
- Date: 2004
- Keywords
- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, semiotics, Umberto Eco