Unlike Ulysses, Joyce left us no book or chapter titles for Finnegans Wake.
Several sources have stepped into the breach.
Book | Book Title1 | Book Title2 | Chapter | Pagination | Chapter Title1 | Chapter Title2 | Chapter Title3 | Chapter Title4 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I | The Book of the Parents |
The Fall of Man* |
1 | 3 – 29 | Finnegan's Fall | The Fall of Man* |
The Wake or The Giant's Howe |
Finnegan's Wake |
2 | 30 – 47 | His Agnomen and Reputation |
The Cad† | Ballad | The Humphriad I | |||
3 | 48 – 74 | His Trial and Incarceration |
Gossip and the Knocking at the Gates‡ |
Goat | The Humphriad II | |||
4 | 75 – 103 | His Demise and Resurrection |
The Trial§ | Lion | The Humphriad III | |||
5 | 104 – 125 | The Manifesto of ALP |
The Letter* | Hen | The Mamafesta | |||
6 | 126 – 168 | Riddles — The Personages of the Manifesto |
The Quiz† | Questions and Answers |
The Quiz | |||
7 | 169 – 195 | Shem the Penman | Shem‡ | Shem | Shem the Penman | |||
8 | 196 – 216 | The Washers at the Ford |
A.L.P.§ | Anna Livia Plurabelle |
Anna Livia | |||
II | The Book of the Sons |
Conflict† | 1 | 219 – 259 | The Children's Hour | Children at Play* | The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies |
Nightgames |
2 | 260 – 308 | The Study Period — Triv and Quad |
Homework† | Night Lessons | Nightlessons | |||
3 | 309 – 382 | Tavernry in Feast | The Tale of a Pub‡ |
Scene in the Pub | Tales at the Inn | |||
4 | 383 – 399 | Bride-Ship and Gulls |
Tristan§ | Mamalujo | Tristan and Isolde | |||
III | The Book of the People |
Humanity‡ | 1 | 403 – 428 | Shaun Before the People |
Shaun the Post* | First Watch of Shaun |
Shaun |
2 | 429 – 473 | Jaun Before St. Bride's |
Jaun's Sermon† | Second Watch of Shaun |
Jaun | |||
3 | 474 – 554 | Yawn Under Inquest |
Yawn‡ | Third Watch of Shaun |
Yawn | |||
4 | 555 – 590 | HCE and ALP — Their Bed of Trial |
The Bedroom§ | Fourth Watch of Shaun |
Dawn | |||
IV | Ricorso | Renewal§ | 1 | 593 – 628 | Unnamed | New Day§ | Unnamed | Unnamed |
Tindall Key2
- * Vico's divine age
- † Vico's heroic age
- ‡ Vico's human age
- § Vico's ricorso
Sources
- 1 Campbell, Joseph && Robinson, Henry Morton. A Skeleton Key to 'Finnegans Wake'. New World, .
- 2 Tindall, William York. A Reader's Guide to James Joyce. Noonday, .
- 3 Glasheen, Adaline. Third Census of 'Finnegans Wake'. U of California P, .
- 4 Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. (Oxford World's Classics). Henkes, Robbert-Jan && Bindervoet, Erik && Fordham, Finn: eds. Oxford UP, .