James Joyce
James Joyce

James Joyce is an Irish author known for his experimental works on language and literary methods. His biggest works include Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). James Joyce was born in Dublin on Feb 2, 1882. The early life of James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was surrounded by nice of his siblings. He went to study […]

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James Joyce: The Legend Behind the Literary Masterpieces
James Joyce: The Legend Behind the Literary Masterpieces

It is the different arts that help us grow, and there is possibly nothing as powerful as literature to influence the souls for an ideal life of challenges and contentment. Talent needs to be wielded in all its glory to give back to the world for its offerings. A legend who has contributed to several […]

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All About Genetic Joyce Studies
All About Genetic Joyce Studies

Every era marks a new milestone through artistry and technology. Nothing could possibly beat the potential of an artist to transcend the limitations of an otherwise unstable society. Literature acts as the foundation to a generation of immense talent and courage. We need to feed ourselves with more content in order to update our brains […]

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The Antwerp James Joyce Center

The Antwerp James Joyce Center was founded at the University of Antwerp in 1991, with two main objectives. On the one hand, we are interested in all aspects of the study of Joyce’s work, specifically from a genetic point of view, and have established close working relationships with many Joyce centres and individual scholars across […]

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Attempts at Narration in Finnegans Wake
Attempts at Narration in Finnegans Wake

The first paragraph of Finnegans Wake seems to inject us directly into an ongoing narrative about to be retold. Yet the opening reads differently if we focus on the word us: riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth […]

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The Quiz Chapter as the Key to a Potential Schema for Finnegans Wake

Chapter I.6, the Quiz, the Questionnaire or the Picture-Gallery from the Family Album, presents the protagonists in the form of twelve riddles and answers. The chapter is strategically placed at the end of the two big questions raised in the previous chapters that are by no means resolved: what is Earwicker’s secret sin and what […]

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Ingeborg Landuyt and Geert Lernout

From the earliest reception of Finnegans Wake, the intertextual dimension of Joyce’s last book has been of central concern to readers and students alike. Harry Levin wrote of the “encyclopedic sweep of Earwicker’s fantasies” (Levin, 124) and James S. Atherton devoted a whole book to the problem of Joyce’s “extraordinarily wide” reading and on the “amazing […]

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