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Staging Joyce’s Prose – Zenon Fajfer and Katarzyna Bazarnik’s Finnegans Make

Publication date: 05.10.2023

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2023, Volume 18, Special issue (2023), pp. 29-39

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.23.009.17841

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Katarzyna Biela
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7392-2546 Orcid
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Staging Joyce’s Prose – Zenon Fajfer and Katarzyna Bazarnik’s Finnegans Make

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to examine Finnegans Make, Zenkasi Theatre Company’s adaptation of Joyce’s prose devised and directed by Zenon Fajfer and Katarzyna Bazarnik, staged in the 1990s. It aims to demonstrate how by employing avant-garde compositional ideas and language games, they translate the structural and linguistic complexity characteristic of the Irish author to the idiom of the stage. demonstrate the thematic coherence of Joyce’s work, accompanied by compositional and. It analyses in detail the play’s circular structure that draws on excerpts from DublinersA Portrait of the ArtistUlysses and Finnegans Wake. It also discusses how Fajfer and Bazarnik engage the audience and explore the theatre space. Finally, it examines how they use the space of the book and typographical devices to translate the live performance into a spatialised score of the play.

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Information: Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2023, Volume 18, Special issue (2023), pp. 29-39

Article type: Original scientific article

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Staging Joyce’s Prose – Zenon Fajfer and Katarzyna Bazarnik’s Finnegans Make

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7392-2546

Katarzyna Biela
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7392-2546 Orcid
Contact with author
All publications →

Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Poland
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Published at: 05.10.2023

Article status: Open

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Research financed by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education from the budget for science and arts 2018‒2022 as a project being a part of the “Diamond Grant” programme.

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Katarzyna, Biela. "Staging Joyce’s Prose – Zenon Fajfer and Katarzyna Bazarnik’s Finnegans Make" Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis. Oct 05, 2023. https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-litteraria-uic/article/staging-joyces-prose-zenon-fajfer-and-katarzyna-bazarniks-finnegans-make

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