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 178 people and groups – Joyceans and non-Joyceans – who 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 Gee is a London-based TV producer who loves 'Ulysses' and is a long-term participant in the 'Wake' research seminar at Senate House, University of London
² 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
³ Albert Marquez, abit translathor, reder, longuage leerner and polyglot, translaytes the Wake to Asspanish, in a samewhat completelly different way, mimmikin Joyce's style, in less then a yearn, despit not heaving read his peevious work at all at all, en during an eterinal 92 degrees gruel summer
⁴ Alex Gregoire is a Distinguished Librarian's Lackey; more details about his own library may be found here
⁵ Andreas Berger is from Vienna, Austria, and a recent FW reader only trying to overcome the obstacles mainly deriving from the multiple rules of English pronunciation(s)
⁶ Andrei Herzlinger is a retired chemical engineer and an amateur Joycean
⁷ Andrew Gibson has produced various books on Joyce. For 27 years he was Director of the London University Seminar for Research into 'Ulysses'. He was also Co-Founder and Co-Director of the London University Seminar for Research into 'Finnegans Wake'.
⁸ 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
⁹ Andrey Rene is working on Russian translation of FW at http://samlib.ru/r/rene_a/
¹⁰ Anonymous refers to contributions appearing in my email inbox, primarily through Fweet's "Comment on Me!!" facility, without the contributor revealing his or her identity, as well as to those from contributors asking not to be identified by name here (thank you, one and all)
¹¹ Aston Verz is a Wake cartoonist, whose few scattered pages could be seen in the Joyce Studies Annual 2014
¹² Bernadette Freeman is an American artist who creates images in collage (including a portrait of Leopold Bloom), working in Santa Fe, NM
¹³ 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
¹⁴ Bloomsday in Melbourne is, among other things, a Finnegans Wake reading group; its website is here
¹⁵ 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
¹⁶ Brent Hannah was born in the hospital in which James Joyce died. Coincidence?
¹⁷ Brian Moynihan (BPhil, MA, MSIS, PMP, MBA, Etc.) lives close to the Haw River, and was happy to find it honored on the site; he discovered FW after the birth of his son Leo set off a series of Joycean coincidences
¹⁸ C.E. Hoequist's initials are CEH, which he shares with his father; this means something; he's sure of it
¹⁹ Caetano W. Galindo has translated all (ok, almost all) of Joyce's works to Brazilian Portuguese. His translation-in-progress of Finnegans Wake still keeps him up at nights, though...
²⁰ Cemal Can Özmumcu is an amateur Joycean who loves experimental literature and seize the whorled in punoramic view!
²¹ Christopher Whalen is studying for a DPhil at Oxford University on "Palimpsesting in James Joyce"; more details may be found here
²² Clifford Marcus is a freelance Spanish/French/Italian/Russian-to-English translator; more details may be found here
²³ Dan Absolon is an ESL teacher/gardener/manual labourer comforted by Finnegans Wake
²⁴ Daniel Mora is a math student fascinated by languages, literature and the joycean labyrinths
²⁵ David Atwood is the Director Designate for EGovernment in Bermuda
²⁶ David Clarke was formerly a CA and university lecturer... now attempting to join the growing group of Wakean geneticists...
²⁷ David Cunningham is a theatre lighting designer, lighting operas and plays, and a life-long Joyce freak
²⁸ David Stone is a retired Cardiologist writing a PhD on Joyce at Kings College London
²⁹ 我是个写诗的人！
³⁰ Elaine Mingus, who died in 2014 at the age of 87, was an independent Joyce scholar, based in Albuquerque. She published her papers on Joyce in a book, Toccatootletoo!
³¹ Eric Arbiter is a professional classical musician ("of the pentapolitan poleetsfurcers bassoons..." FW 565.4 Houston Symphony, actually; retired 2019), a professional photographer and Zen teacher, captivated by Mr Joyce for 44 years. His book on reed making for the bassoon, The Way of Cane, is published by Oxford University Press (2020). There are several quotes from FW in it.
³² Eric Rosenbloom wrote A Word in Your Ear and his Finnegans Wake website is here
³³ 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)
³⁴ One liner? For me?
³⁵ Friedhelm Rathjen is a free-lance translator and lit-crit and a self-publishing Joycean; more details may be found here
³⁶ Greg Koster, an assistant public defender in Chicago, never reads FW during office hours
³⁷ Harald Beck and John Simpson are the editors of James Joyce Online Notes, which does not focus on FW, but has occasional references to it and a collection of links to the items in Joyce's Trieste library
³⁸ Helen Saunders is a PhD candidate at King's College London, writing a thesis on Joyce's relationship to fashion
³⁹ Jarrod Baniqued is an independent researcher on sabbatical at the moment. He aspires to begin the Wake one day
⁴⁰ Jeffrey Rose is a lifelong reader of Joyce who has finally embarked on the journey across the Wake
⁴¹ Jian Wang is an engineer and enjoys reading FW very much
⁴² 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
⁴³ John Hughes, member of Melbourne Finnegans Wake Reading Group
⁴⁴ John Simpson and Harald Beck are the editors of James Joyce Online Notes, which does not focus on FW, but has occasional references to it and a collection of links to the items in Joyce's Trieste library
⁴⁵ Krzysztof Bartnicki translated Finnegans Wake into Polish; more details may be found here
⁴⁶ 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
⁴⁷ Mary Percival is a very late arrival at the Wake but although still in Part 1 can see it becoming a twin obsession rivalling her passion for the Commedia
⁴⁸ Michael Dishler is a semiretired Acupuncturist, a longtime dedicated Joyce reader, and at present a praiser of his own past
⁴⁹ 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
⁵⁰ Michael O'Kelly's annotations from the JJ Institute Dublin reading group, which has been reading FW on and off for over forty years
⁵¹ Mick Bolger is the singer with the group Colcannon
⁵² Miri Jassy is a postgraduate researcher in the Global Irish Studies Centre at the University of New South Wales, Sydney; her PhD thesis is on the representation of the antipodes in Finnegans Wake
⁵³ Nicholas Wilson is a composer; on the centenary of Joyce's birth on 2 Feb 1982, he accidentally spilt Jameson whiskey on his grave in Zurich
⁵⁴ 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
⁵⁵ Paraic McKenna is an accountant originally from Dublin, currently UK-based but increasingly domiciled in FW
⁵⁶ Pete Taylor reads Joyce for fun, listens to lots of music, drinks tea and makes bread
⁵⁷ Peter Burns is a storyteller and stuntologist; his website used to be at www.talespins.com
⁵⁸ Peter Chrisp writes the Wake blog, From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay
⁵⁹ Peter Jennings is a nomadic artist and inventor who has been enjoying FW since 1967; his website is here
⁶⁰ Peter Reichenberg is the author of "Finnegans Wake: The Dating Game"; James Joyce Quarterly, Volume 46, Number 2, Winter 2009
⁶¹ Raphael Slepon is the person behind Fweet and behind An Ovel
⁶² Ronan Crowley (@Yellworque) thinks we need a new Joyce biography
⁶³ Simon Loekle (R.I.P.) used to pen A Dazibao for the JJQ and present literary readings Saturday mornings over WBAI 99.5 FM NYC; his own website is still here
⁶⁴ Stefano Rosignoli carries on research on James Joyce and Samuel Beckett in London and Dublin
⁶⁵ Steve Carey wrote his doctorate on the comedy in Ulysses at Oxford University under Richard Ellmann. He is Treasurer of Bloomsday in Melbourne, Australia
⁶⁶ The Thirsty Scholars is a Finnegans Wake reading group in Boston, Massachusetts
⁶⁷ Thomas Speer is an amateur Joycean
⁶⁸ Walter Heenan is an amateur Wake Fan and a master builder. Formerly of software. Currently piling building supra building pon the flanks of the mountains known as Kaaterskill — in a little town named Woodstock (yup, that one)
⁶⁹ 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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