Month: February 2022

Dr. Robert Brazeau University of Alberta For the first many years of its life, Finnegans Wake was thought to have too few prescient and informing contexts. The “unreadability” of the work was deemed to derive, at least in part, from the general absence of other, proximate works that might allow access to the linguistic density…Continue Reading Call For Papers: Finnegans Wake in Context

DATELINE: PARIS, FEBRUARY 2, 1922* Gare-de-Lyon Train Station—7:00 a.m By Richard J. Gerber   It was more than an hour before sunrise, still dark and cold. A nervous thirty-four-year-old Sylvia Beach—the American proprietor of the Shakespeare and Company bookshop—pulled her wool coat close and tugged at her cloche hat as she looked down the track….Continue Reading Happy Birthday, Mr. Joyce: The First Copies of Ulysses