Example sentences for: finnegans

How can you use “finnegans” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • James Joyce said that this poem had some influence on him when he was writting Finnegans Wake.

  • So let us note: James Joyce's novel is Finnegans Wake (1939), not “Finnegan's,” E. M. Forster's is Howards End (1910) (another house name, by the way), not “Howard's,” and, a potential double delusion, Shakespeare's famous play is Love's Labour's Lost (1598), with two apostrophes.

  • ' This was missed by Tindall in his Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake and McHugh in his Annotations to FW , while Glasheen has it in her 3rd Census .

  • Modern translingual jeux d'esprit are Mots d'Heures Gousses Rames , by Luis d'Antin von Roote (New York, 1967) in which English masquerades as French; Brigid Brophy, In Transit (London, 1969); and the ultimate: Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake with their ostensibly English yet polyvalent, transliteral letter and word groups which punningly play over no fewer than fifty to sixty languages in Cheshire-catlike, now-you-see-it-now-you-don't trompes l'oeil .


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