Christian Hein

The Double Life of Issy Earwicker

Victorian Values in the Mirror of Finnegans Wake

Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2012, 184 Seiten ISBN: 978-3-8260-4911-8
Fachgebiet: Band: 761
Autor*innen:Christian Hein

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Beschreibung

James Joyce’s sad and dreamy Issy Earwicker has gone almost unnoticed by researchers, although she is one of the most interesting characters of the Finnegans Wake. Her innocent longing for romantic love make her the very personifi cation of Victorian values. But Issy leads a double life, for through her mirror she takes on the alternative identity of an independent woman claiming the same sexual freedom which men are exclusively granted. Through her doubling Issy oscillates between the two extremes of Victorian morality and modern emancipation making her a révenant between obsolete tradition and modernity. Eventually, her secret life makes her the parodic double of the ideal and virtuous bourgeois woman living up to the moral law of the father(s)—in constant danger of losing her identity. This study analyzes episodes of Finnegans Wake such as Tristan and Iseult and Kersse the Sailor and the Norwegian Captain and discusses the public discourse of late Victorian society when more and more women questioned the legitimacy of the status quo. Joyce’s use of grotesque and carnivalesque motifs in his satire of bourgeois morality, furthermore, plays a vital role in the interpretation of Issy’s character and function in the Wake. Eventually, the question of identity and free will and their signifi cance for Joyce’s text (and for the modern individual in general) are investigated. Der Autor Christian Hein promovierte an der Leibniz Universität Hannover. Er lebt in Taipei.

Zusätzliche Information

Gewicht0,435 kg
Größe15.5 × 23.5 cm (B × H)
Seiten184
Erscheinungsdatum01.10.2012
ISBN978-3-8260-4911-8   //   9783826049118
EinbandartKartoniert
SpracheDeutsch
VerlagKönigshausen & Neumann
Verlags-Code05/5108091

Autor*innen

Hein, Christian

Christian Hein promovierte an der Leibniz Universität Hannover. Er arbeitet seit 2005 als Lektor für deutsche Sprache und Kultur am Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures der National Taiwan University.