title: Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations: Language and Meaning in Finnegans Wake
author: Dr Lucia Boldrini
description: "Her ability to tackle seemingly baffling and insurmountable textual conundrums in both Dante and Joyce is remarkable. Moreover, she bypasses the set ways of discussing influence and intertextuality in order to offer fresh and invigorating readings of literary relations." Jennifer Frazer, James Joyce Literary Supplement<br /><br />"The book's scope...is broad enough to warrant the attention of readers interested in both authors, as well as in theoretical questions of relations between and among texts [...] Seamless." The Comparatist<br /><br />"Her effort to describe the language in Finnegan's Wake deserves to be read by every student of Joyce and by those who are interested in how the medieval world was retrieved by the modernists as a source of influence and inspiration." James Joyce Quarterly
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  Under The Highland Sky
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
  
  Highlands
  
  1792
  
  There was something very wrong with Dianna O’Donnell. This conclusion, one she
  had not come by lightly, was punctuated with each rapid thrum of her heart,
  every small drop of pearl layered along her collarbone, and the slight tremble
  that feathered across her fingers. A conclusion sealed by icy pools of fury.
  
  Her nemesis. The bane of her existence. The devil himself.
  
  Imperious. Entitled. Rude.
  
  Her betrothed.
  
  “Dianna O’Donnell.” His gaze traveled from her to the five suitcases stacked
  atop each other.
  
  “What are you  doing here?”
  
  Dianna lifted her chin a notch. His low, raspy brogue did not fail to spark a
  tempestuous onslaught of annoyance. Boredom defined the tenor of his voice
  even as midnight blue eyes flashed with ire.
  
  The man was a swamp of contradictions. A marshland of unexplored bogs and
  winding rivers, each as perilous and fraught with danger as the other