Концепт времени в романе Джеймса Джойса ≪Поминки по Финнегану≫

Abstract

The article discusses the concept of time in "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce. The narrative time and the time in the narrative are most topical and controversial problems in both linguistics and literary criticism. The author applies the theory of functional grammar to the analysis of the text and reveals the functions, the corresponding clause structures, interprets the metaphors of time, speculates on the use of tenses. The author works out the peculiarities of the .studied concept in Joyce's novel in comparison to that of the traditional narrative.