The Structure of Finnegans Wake

Title

The Structure of Finnegans Wake

Description

In its efforts to integrate the arts, the Institute of Design brings before the students the great creative writers in lecture series. For a better understanding of the work of James Joyce, Leslie L. Lewis prepared charts disclosing the structure of the books "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake."

Designer

Lewis, Leslie L.

Date

1945

Source

Vision in Motion

Bibliographic Citation

Moholy-Nagy, László. 1947. Vision in Motion. Paul Theobald. Figure 435, page 347.

Is Referenced By

Phelan, James Blackwell. 2017. "Ulysses , Annotation, and the Literature of Information Overload" James Joyce Quarterly, Volume 55, Number 1-2, Fall 2017-Winter 2018, pp. 35-57

Leslie L. Lewis blocks out a five-column-by-seventeen-row Ulysses-style schema that relates figures in the Wake to hermeneutic categories and overwrites it with a pair of schematic figures that thwart and jar with the grid but complement each other: sectioned concentric rings charting the books, cycles, and so forth of Giambattista Vico’s New Science and a starburst whose rays signify miscellaneous formal principles, emanating and radiating from the initials J. J.