The Adventure of the Detected Detective: Sherlock Holmes in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

by William D. Jenkins

Overview

What better introduction could there be to Finnegans Wake, perhaps the most difficult literary work ever written, than the Sherlock Holmes stories, perhaps the most readable and popular stories ever written? James Joyce made extensive use of Sherlockian material in his work; indeed, Jenkins argues, this use goes to the core of the meaning and structure of Finnegans Wake.

In this exhaustive and entertaining analysis, Jenkins provides the specific references to Holmes' adventures in the Wake and examines the context in which they occur and how they relate to the larger Wake themes. Readers of world literature, especially Joyce and Doyle scholars and students, will find this a fascinating and useful volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313291432
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/18/1998
Series:	Contributions to the Study of World Literature , #54
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

WILLIAM D. JENKINS was an independent researcher who specialized in late 19th- and early 20th-century literature. His work was published in such jourbanals as Studies in Philology, Modern Fiction Studies, James Joyce Quarterly, and the Baker Street Jourbanal.

Table of Contents

Preface
It Seems There Were Two Irishmen … Doyle and Joyce
Sigersons Wake
The Final Problem and The Empty House
The Sign of the Four
The Dancing Men and The Valley of Fear
The Adventure of Black Peter
The Adventure of the Priory School
The Man with the Twisted Lip
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Musgrave Ritual
The Stock-Broker's Clerk
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
Silver Blaze
The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
Footprints—More Designs on the Corse
Motif and Leitmotif Book I (Chapters 1-8)
Motif and Leitmotif Book II (Chapters 9-12)
Motif and Leitmotif Book III (Chapters 13-16); Book IV (Chapter 17)
And Watsy Lyke Sees after All Rinsings
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

The author meticulously locates the connections to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and particularly his Sherlock Holmes series, in Joyce's novels, particularly , finding in Joyce's work an abundance of significant allusions to aspects of Doyle's own life and literary techniques. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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