Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is probably the hardest book to read in the English language. A principle hurdle is the length and convolutedness of the sentences. This paper reports work-in-progress of an attempt to handle the complexity of Finnegans Wake by parsing the sentences (at a structural, not a semantic level), to reveal their top-level structure. It takes the reader step-by-step through the construction of an ixml grammar for dealing with one chapter of the book.
Author: Steven Pemberton
Institution: Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4412660292