Bibliography

This page lists all the sources that have gone into forming the collection to date – a modest list, indeed. The presence or absence of an item from the list is by no means an indication of merit, importance or value. Some valuable studies of Finnegans Wake are missing from the list because I had read them before starting the collection. Some items that do appear on the list have contributed exactly zero elucidations to the collection; they are still listed to note that everything of worth has already been extracted from them (and to mourn a tree dead in vain). If anything, this list is in some ways an indication of my present penchant for thinner volumes. Obviously, the lion's share of the Finnegans Wake studies corpus is absent for the simple reason that it has not yet been read into the collection. Nudge, nudge.

Slowly but surely other people join forces with me in reading books and articles into the collection, for which I am truly grateful. Accordingly, those sources that were not read by me are marked as such using the following abbreviations:

• Harold Ryan [HR]
• Michael Farrell [MF]

Please understand that many of the listed sources contain much information that cannot be translated into the elucidation format; that is why they are books and articles rather than just lists of notes. The presence of an item in one of the lists below should in no way imply that a serious student of Finnegans Wake is exempt from reading it on his or her own.

Since Fweet does not note the individual source for each specific elucidation, it might not be always obvious where one should look if one wishes, for whatever reason, to refer to the original source of some elucidation found in Fweet's database. To remedy this drawback of Fweet, I highly recommend to use The James Joyce Checklist, an amazing resource that lists virtually every study ever published about Joyce and his work, coupled with a capable search engine. For example, if you are intrigued by some elucidations about cricketers in Finnegans Wake and wish to read the original article(s) from which Fweet may have taken its elucidations, your best bet would be to enter The James Joyce Checklist's Search page (via the link above) and type "cricket*" (i.e. cricket followed by an asterisk) in the text-box marked "with all of the words:". You will receive a list of seven (or so) resources (articles and chapters in books), of which one looks quite promising, namely Ron Malings's "Cricketers at the Wake". A similar approach can be used to locate studies related to many other topics. If, however, The James Joyce Checklist does not offer a solution to your particular query, please remember that you can always contact me (via the "Comment on Me!" button) and I will do my best to help you.

In the book section, special mention should be made of the two volumes that formed, and still form, the core of the collection – the first two editions of McHugh's Annotations to Finnegans Wake (a third edition has already been published) – as well as of the growing number of black volumes that supply it with notebook entries and their sources – the wonderful Deane–Ferrer–Lernout Brepols edition of the Buffalo notebooks.

Behind this short section lie thousands of articles related to Finnegans Wake that fill the pages of these periodicals. Access to the now relatively rare A Wake Newslitter issues was made available through the highly-recommended Split Pea Press A Wake Newslitter CD-ROM.

This is a preliminary section, still ridiculously short, that is more the result of contributions from Fweet users than any representation of a deliberate reading plan.

† If I may, I would like to point out here that I strongly disapprove of piscicidal activities, especially those masquerading as a sport or a pastime

This is a preliminary section, still ridiculously short, that is more the result of contributions from Fweet users than any representation of a deliberate reading plan.

This section lists people – Joyceans and non-Joyceans – that have contributed in various ways to the improvement of Fweet, primarily through the offering of new elucidations or the correction of existing ones. Thank you. Contributors: if you would like to add your own descriptive one-liner (along the lines already exemplified by a few brave souls below) or update an existing one (as many times as you wish), please just send me a comment.

¹ Adam Harvey is an actor/performance artist from the American southwest who has performed full chapters of Finnegans Wake on both sides of the big pond; he is presently in dialogue with Boston Baroque's Martin Pearlman about a possible spoken-word/musical hybrid adaptation of Joyce's final masterwork; Adam runs a James Joyce reading group in his home town of Santa Fe, New Mexico
² Alex Gregoire is a Distinguished Librarian's Lackey; more details about his own library may be found here
³ Andrew Heathwaite is a composer, activist, teacher, vegan, experimenter, polyhuman and metaclown, generating alternatives in collaboration with the School for Designing a Society in Urbana, Illinois
⁴ Bill Shockley is a US Navy (retired), software engineer and development manager (retired), intermittent Wakian, who identifies with Shem but is probably more of a Shaun
⁵ Brendan Ward is a Marathon runner from Dublin who takes part in regular readings of Joyce's works in Sweny's Chemist, where Bloom bought his lemon soap (still available) on Bloomsday
⁶ C.E. Hoequist's initials are CEH, which he shares with his father; this means something; he's sure of it
⁷ Christopher Whalen is studying for a DPhil at Oxford University on "Palimpsesting in James Joyce"; more details may be found here
⁸ Clifford Marcus is a freelance Spanish/French/Italian/Russian-to-English translator; more details may be found here
⁹ David Atwood is the Director Designate for EGovernment in Bermuda
¹⁰ David Cunningham is a theatre lighting designer, lighting operas and plays, and a life-long Joyce freak
¹¹ Elaine Mingus's website used to be at www.elainesjoyce.com
¹² Eric Rosenbloom wrote A Word in Your Ear and his Finnegans Wake website is at www.rosenlake.net/fw/
¹³ Esther Murer is a former library cataloguer (German and Slavic), literary translator (Norwegian) and researcher on Biblical references in 17th-century Quaker writings (mostly Commonwealth and Restoration periods) who loves dipping into FW at random and counts it as an important influence on her poetry (at 75, she's about to publish her first collection)
¹⁴ Friedhelm Rathjen is a free-lance translator and lit-crit and a self-publishing Joycean; more details may be found here
¹⁵ Greg Koster, an assistant public defender in Chicago, never reads FW during office hours
¹⁶ Jeffrey Rose is a lifelong reader of Joyce who has finally embarked on the journey across the Wake
¹⁷ Jian Wang is an engineer and enjoys reading FW very much
¹⁸ João Lourenço is a teenager with a wide range of interests (from the stupid rationality of mathematics to the stupid irrationality of arts); he writes in his free time (his work is still in progress), reads a lot and will probably go to the university in the next two years to study mathematics or physics
¹⁹ Krzysztof Bartnicki has translated Finnegans Wake (Penguin edition) into Polish
²⁰ Kyle Foley is passionate about the wake (as evidenced by his being one of Fweet's most active contributors to date) and would like other wakeans to contact him at kylefoley202@gmail.com
²¹ Michael Farrell was born in Galway, grew up in Dublin and lives in London; he is a Reader in Addictions in Kings College London; he enjoys close reading of JJs works simply for pleasure
²² Orlando Mezzabotta is an actor who reads the Wake just for fun and has written (just for fun) OPFERTUERE, a finntalian multimedia version of the first chapter of the Wake
²³ Peter Burns is a storyteller and stuntologist; his website used to be at www.talespins.com
²⁴ Peter Reichenberg is the author of "Finnegans Wake: The Dating Game"; James Joyce Quarterly, Volume 46, Number 2, Winter 2009
²⁵ Raphael Slepon is the person behind Fweet and is now trying to publish his first novel; wish him good luck
²⁶ Simon Loekle pens A Dazibao for the JJQ, and presents literary readings Saturday mornings over WBAI 99.5 FM NYC
²⁷ Thomas Speer is an amateur Joycean
²⁸ Wim Van Mierlo (Institute of English Studies, University of London) has published on Joyce, Yeats and Flann O'Brien; his research is in the field of Modernism, Anglo-Irish Literature and Modern Manuscript Studies

Hopefully, with time, more sections, such as mailing list archives, will appear.

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