![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "No one doubts that every good library should have the entire text of the Wake and there are good reasons for saying the same of the Finnegans Wake Notebooks". Furthermore, the Edition will allow for a reconstruction of Joyce's intellectual concerns and compositional habits during the drafting of Work in Progress / Finnegans Wake. The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition will provide a reference library of comprehensively quoted source material-in effect an annotated digest of Joyce's working library-which will serve as a new star-ting point not just for exegesis of Finnegans Wake, but also for biographical, textual, and literary criticism of Joyce. In addition to his chronic eye troubles, Joyce suffered great and prolonged anxiety over the mental health of his daughter, Lucia. The editorial aim is to bring together all of the information relevant to each note in as concise and simple a way as possible. James Joyce In Paris Joyce worked on Finnegans Wake, the title of which was kept secret, the novel being known simply as Work in Progress until it was published in its entirety in May 1939. This will make individual notebooks available to scholars as they appear and allow critical feedback, laying the foundations for an electronic edition that will be prepared simultaneously. It will be published as a series of fascicles, one per authorial notebook, three per scribal notebook, fifty-five in all. ![]() The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition is a fully integrated and cross-referenced edition of all the extant work-books compiled by Joyce after the completion of Ulysses. ![]()
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