Word: wickliff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those twenty-four hours are only the jumping off place for a flood of reminiscence that yields fifty-two flashbacks and several of the main lines of story. John Wickliff Shawnessy, a mid-century, mid-continent teacher-idealist-poet is the protagonist, and his life seems to represent the shadowy outlines of a larger history...
Shawnessy Hero. As in Ulysses, the formal setting of the novel is one community and the time one day. The community is the small town of Waycross, Indiana, and the date July 4, 1892. The hero, John Wickliff Shawnessy, is both family man and poet, combining the two archetypal characters that Joyce separated in Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. Mr. Shawnessy, 53, schoolteacher and county scholar, moves through the day as a leading citizen in the local celebrations. At intervals the day's events or reflections, like firecrackers, touch off flashbacks to the significant events of Mr. Shawnessy...