Grace Eckley

The Encryption of Finnegans Wake Resolved (eBook, PDF)

W. T. Stead

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

At risk of life and reputation, the reform journalist W. T. Stead (1849-1912) exposed child vice and white slavery in London and established age 16 for statutory rape. Concluding the 1914 Portrait, Joyce saluted the "Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead" and set the path of future works. The exemplary life and devotions of Stead provided James Joyce with a model, a theme, and a purpose. Joyce integrated Steadfacts with his own personal emerging autobiography and interpretation of the ongoing Irish national, international, and even cosmic events. In this book Eckley uses new sources to unravel forgotten languages, motifs, and metaphors and recognizes "obscurity" as a "chrysalis factor" in Joyce's Finnegans Wake to illuminate Stead's influence on Joyce. This book of Finnegans Wake criticism will open paths for exciting new efforts in studying Joyce.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761882756
• Artikelnr.: 74829654

Autorenporträt

Grace Eckley in the 1980s retired from teaching to devote full time to research writing. After more than twenty years in beloved Colorado, she returned to family in Des Moines, Iowa, and now profits from their many contributions to research efforts.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Chapter One: The
Stead Source and the Critical Dilemma Chapter Two: The Predication of the
Portrait's "Good Man Stead" Chapter Three: The Strategy of the Encrypted
Name Chapter Four: The Thunder of Stead's Scandalous Maiden Tribute Chapter
Five: The Park Maid and the Sinister Sir Chapter Six: Who Was the Hen and
Whose the Letters Chapter Seven: Light and Science in the "Dark Night of
the Soul" Chapter Eight: Maamtrasna Retrial Defends the Joyce Family Name
Chapter Nine: The Brunonian "Hiresiarch" and the Russian general (Sic)
Chapter Ten: Timing and Terrain of the Snake and the Whale Chapter Eleven:
The Encrypted Hero of Finnegans Wake References