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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Finnegans Wake"”.
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Alchemy and <i>Finnegans Wake</i>
<p><em>Finnegans Wake</em> is the result of a modern alchemical process; it is the literary <em>lapis</em>, the artistic equivalent of the Philosopher’s Stone. The book contains references to alchemical techniques, processes, ingredients, and equipment, as well as to various alchemists and …
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Pedagogy And Identity In "The Night Lessons" Of Finnegans Wake
… thesis explores chapter II.ii of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939)—commonly called "The Night Lessons"—and its peculiar use of the conventions of the textbook as a form. In the midst of the Wake's abstraction, Joyce uses the textbook to undertake a rigorous exploration of epistemology and …
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The Picture and the Letter: Male and Female Creativity in James Joyce’s 'Finnegans Wake'
… in descriptions of the creative process in Finnegans Wake, and additionally to assess the gender-related issues surrounding the Wakean cycle of creativity. The latter requirement unites two modes of reading: namely an elucidation of what is overtly present in Finnegans Wake regarding …
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“The abnihilization of the etym”: Finnegans Wake ii.3 as oral poetry in the age of mechanical reproduction
<p>This thesis argues that Finnegans Wake II.3 reveals a role for a dynamic kind of art to contest the dominant narratives in an age of seemingly static new-media technological saturation. By redeploying resources from ancient oral poetic tradition, Finnegans Wake creates a form of resistance to …
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"Moving Bodies: James Joyce and the ""New Physics"""
… Joyce's later fiction. As he wrote Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, Joyce culled from the Einsteinian ideas that were ""in the air"" the inspiration for a cluster of radical narrative techniques. Because Einstein's theories appear to hold equally true for animate and inanimate matter, they coincide …
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Some Measures of Ulysses
… Consequently, the way in which Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are read and valued will be linked to an entire theory of literature. The body of this paper will comprise a general overview of criticism which has attempted to measure Ulysses subsequent to its publication; an analyzation of the …
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Gestural Ekphrasis: Toward a Phenomenology of the Moving Body in Joyce and Woolf
… - particularly <em>Ulysses</em> (1922) and<em> Finnegans Wake</em> (1939). Though gesture studies has developed significantly as an interdisciplinary field in recent decades and performance studies has elaborated on the moving body's significance to both text and performance, literary …
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Embodied female voices: sexuality and artistry in Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
… Stair and Other Poems (1933), James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (1939), and Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days (1961), Play (1963), Not I (1973), Footfalls (1976), and Rockaby (1982). Looking at the work of these authors, I argue that the “modern woman,” who pursues her own pleasure and self-realization …
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Music Inspired by the Works of Robert Frost
… morphed into musical ideas. Like James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake or Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, some of Frost’s poems leave the reader with no clear message or conclusion. Writing like this used to frustrate me. However, I have since come to understand that the words, although they do not …
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The Anti-Racist Avant-Garde: Modernist Legacies and Experimentation in Ralph Ellison and James Joyces’ postcolonial and racial subjects
… supremacy in America. The radio sections of Finnegans Wake will provide crucial support here, with Ellison’s ‘Cadillac Flambé’ providing the pivot point for the chapter. This thesis will chart a parallel development in Joyce and Ellisons’ work, from their early short stories, to their career …
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From Onegin to Ada: Nabokov's Canon and the Texture of Time
… die childless. Is Ada a dead end, Nabokov's Finnegans Wake? Or can masterpieces interbreed indefinitely? Chapter Five examines Ada in the context of its working title, The Texture of Time. Van is a scholar of Henri Bergson, of the duration of the past into the present, and of spatial …
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Contexts for <i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i>
… has been suffered by <em>Ulysses</em> and <em>Finnegans Wake</em>. A reader seldom approaches Joyce’s work without a sense of paralyzing awe, or without a guilty feeling that he is intruding upon hallowed ground reserved for the select few. The daunting mass of scholarship dealing with …
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Irish modernism and the machine
"This dissertation argues that John Eglinton, James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, W.B. Yeats, and Samuel Beckett depict machines in texts in order to interrogate the status of Ireland's modernity. Are trains, dynamos (power generators), and bicycles signs of Ireland’s progress? Instead of an affirmation, …