The Suspended Sentence

An Exploration of Finnegans Wake

Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • HCE and ALP
  • How to Read Finnegans Wake
  • Resources
    • Images for “There’s Lots of Memes in Finnegans Wake”
  • The Story in Finnegans Wake
  • The Title of This Blog
  • Tour Finnegans Wake
    • Book I
    • Book II
    • Books III and IV
    • Characters
      • ALP
      • HCE
      • Issy (Iseult)
      • Shaun the Postman
      • Shem the Penman
      • The Cad
      • The Four Old Men
      • The Prankquean
    • Motifs

Endlessly Inartistic Portraits of Himself, Part 2

1 Reply

My re-read of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man continues, and I’m enjoying it greatly. This post contains some of my reflections.

Continue reading →
This entry was posted in A Portrait of the Artist, Close Reading and tagged Close Reading, Far reading on June 11, 2025 by Matthew Leporati.

Endlessly Inartistic Portraits of Himself

Leave a reply

I’m re-reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man right now, and I was surprised to find the word “immodest” in one of the most significant sections. This post will briefly look at that word in Portrait, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake.

Continue reading →
This entry was posted in A Portrait of the Artist, Close Reading, Ulysses and tagged Close Reading, Far reading on June 5, 2025 by Matthew Leporati.

No, Blank Ye

Leave a reply

This post extends my discussion of gaps in Finnegans Wake, which I first wrote about here. I want to look at a few instances of the word “blank,” as well as another instance of horseracing that describes HCE in terms of absence.

Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Close Reading, The Cad and tagged Close Reading, Far reading, Shem and Shaun on May 28, 2025 by Matthew Leporati.

Whores Race

2 Replies

Another metaphor for life in Finnegans Wake is a horse race. This post will look at some instances of horse racing in the novel.

Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Close Reading and tagged Close Reading, Far reading on May 19, 2025 by Matthew Leporati.

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →
  • A Portrait of the Artist
  • Alcohol
  • Close Reading
  • Clothing
  • Dubliners
  • Film
  • Forgiveness
  • Holidays
  • Introduction
  • Mystical Blathering
  • Overview
  • Shameless Self-Promotion
  • Silliness
  • The Cad
  • The Prankquean
  • Ulysses
  • Uncategorized
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • The Suspended Sentence
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Suspended Sentence
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar

Loading Comments...