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.

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.

† I would like to point out that I strongly disapprove of piscicidal activities, especially those masquerading as a sport or as 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 Christopher Whalen is studying for a DPhil at Oxford University on "Palimpsesting in James Joyce"; more details may be found here
² Clifford Marcus is a freelance Spanish/French/Italian/Russian-to-English translator; more details may be found here
³ David Atwood is the Director Designate for EGovernment in Bermuda
⁴ Friedhelm Rathjen is a free-lance translator and lit-crit and a self-publishing Joycean; more details may be found here
⁵ 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
⁶ Peter Burns is a storyteller and stuntologist; his website is at www.talespins.com
⁷ Raphael Slepon is the person behind Fweet and is now trying to write a first novel; wish him good luck
⁸ Simon Loekle pens A Dazibao for the JJQ, and presents literary readings Saturday mornings over WBAI 99.5 FM NYC
⁹ Thomas Speer is an amateur Joycean
¹⁰ 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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