The Books at the Wake. A Study of Literary Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

Morse, J. Mitchell; Atherton, J. S.

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“…In terms of the Wake, crystallized intelligence refers to the knowledge which would aid in recognising the text's allusions, as detailed by several extensive studies. 21 Fluid intelligence describes the means through which these connections are made. It must be acknowledged that these are case studies rather than coverage.…”

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“…[23][24][25][26][27], "probapossible prolegomena to ideareal history" (FW 262.3-7), "gnosis of precreate determination, agnosis of postcreate determinism" (FW 262. [20][21][22][23][24][25], and so on. James Joyce Quarterly PROOF Navigating this chapter calls upon the processes discussed above: one's crystallised intelligence in specific knowledge of allusions, and fluid intelligence in connecting these references to their Wakean manifestations.…”

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“…(FW 307. [21][22][23][24][25]. Recalling Conley, these are nonsensical questions, testing creativity rather than content.…”

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Induction, Deduction, and Visual-Spatial Perception: The Finnegans Wake Intelligence Test

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Finnegans Wake makes intense demands on its readers’ intellectual energies, and I propose that the text brings our cognitive reasoning capacities to the foreground by putting them to work. In this, the Wake resembles an intelligence test, calling upon abilities of deduction, induction, and visual-spatial perception. Using deduction, readers draw upon existing linguistic paradigms in order to make sense of Joyce’s neologisms, while induction involves identifying patterns created by the text itself. Moreover, “characters” such as HCE are often denoted only by the appearance of these letters, activating pattern-recognition skills. Nevertheless, identifying these references is not the end-point of studying the Wake , since dissecting Joyce’s text into an inventory of allusions would dissolve its artistry. Instead, discerning familiar elements in Joycean innovations is a fluid and ongoing process, where the manifestation of one’s own cognitive processes constitutes an aesthetic effect.

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“…Atherton explained this curious taste, not very convincingly, as a result of Joyce's retreat from Catholicism, which apparently left him with an appetite for the superstitious. 9 Quite apart from the evidence of the texts, which are uniformly mocking of theosophy, it is now established that Joyce was reading anthropological theorisations of magic, taking notes from W. J. Perry's The Origin of Magic and Religion (1923) in V1.B.14 for example. 10 This is suggestive of a more controlled and modern approach to theosophy than Atherton's rather stereotyping view allowed.…”

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Madame Blavatsky and Theosophy in Finnegans Wake : An Annotated List

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2008

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It has always been recognised that theosophy was of interest to Joyce, in part because of the well-known local connection. Theosophy was practised by key figures in the Irish Literary Revival. Charles Johnson, under Yeats's influence, met A. P. Sinnett and formed the Dublin Lodge of the Theosophical Society in 1885, an organisation which according to Edward Boyd, one of the earliest historians of Irish revivalism, was as vital a factor in the evolution of Anglo-Irish literature as the publication of Standish O'Grady's History of Ireland, the two events being complimentary to any complete understanding of the literature of the revival. The Theosophical Movement provided a literary, artistic and intellectual centre from which radiated influences whose effect was felt even by those that did not belong to it. 1 Yeats, George Russell, and Eglinton, all key figures in the Irish Literary Revival, joined the Society at various times. Both Russell and Yeats knew Blavatsky personally and both were deeply influenced by her. For seven years Russell remained a member of the 'Household', a group of theosophists who lived together forming the nucleus staff of The Irish Theosophist (1892). 2 This influential journal remained in publication until 1897 when it was replaced by The Internationalist, for which Eglinton wrote a great deal.Thereafter the Irish theosophy movement, in parallel with the wider international movement, went through a number of breaks and schisms. Russell in particular, and

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James Joyce and the Matter of Paris

Flynn

2019

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The Books at the Wake. A Study of Literary Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

Cited by 14 publications

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Induction, Deduction, and Visual-Spatial Perception: The Finnegans Wake Intelligence Test

Induction, Deduction, and Visual-Spatial Perception: The Finnegans Wake Intelligence Test

Madame Blavatsky and Theosophy in Finnegans Wake : An Annotated List

James Joyce and the Matter of Paris

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