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Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno. 
The World’s Words: A Semiotic Reading of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and Rabelais’ Gargantua et Pantagruel.
Published Paris: Alyscamps Press, 1993.
ISBN 1897722109.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound; front and back covers unprinted blue card (no paste-downs).
Size: 164×239×5mm.
Page count: [vi],41pp plus colour frontispiece.
Main language: English.
Unused bargain: these copies are unused but missing the paste-down title labels from their front covers; otherwise just the usual mild storage wear, pages starting to yellow with age.

This item £6.00
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Weight without packaging: 152g.

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François Rabelais and James Joyce are generally considered major innovators of literary language. When comparative studies have been made the emphasis has been mainly upon incident rather than upon language. This study does not attempt to prove the influence of Rabelais upon Joyce. Instead, using primarily a semiotic-linguistic method, it examines the analogous manner in which these writers use language in their two masterworks. Principal attention in this analysis is devoted to the manner in which language is manipulated, mutated and invented within the framework of tradition. In addition, it is concerned with how this type of verbal experimentation expresses an attitude toward the word that is unique to these two craftsmen.

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