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Gabriel Renggli's book, "Joyce as Theory: Hermeneutic Ethics in Derrida, Lacan, and 'Finnegans Wake'," offers a unique perspective on James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake." Renggli argues that rather than treating the novel as subordinate or superior to theory, it should be read as theory itself. He explores how the linguistic experimentation in "Finnegans Wake" exemplifies the process of differential signification, as modeled in Jacques Derrida's post-Saussurian phase. Renggli also examines the role of linguistic multiplicity in unraveling the possibility of a singular, unequivocal meaning, and argues for an ethical project born from uncertainty and equivocation. Overall, Renggli's book provides a compelling analysis of the complexity and ethical implications of "Finnegans Wake." [Extracted from the article]

In the 'Scylla and Charybdis' episode of Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus presents a theory about Shakespeare's biographical motivations for writing Hamlet, which he ultimately claims, perhaps disingenuously, to not believe. Stephen's apparent disbelief in his own theory echoes Oscar Wilde's 'Portrait of Mr W. H.', which is referenced within 'Scylla', and which also propounds a theory of Shakespeare's artistic production in terms of his biography. Furthermore, like the various characters in Wilde's story, Stephen's theory is propelled primarily from the internal evidence of Shakespeare's texts. In this article, I will analyse the playful and learned insincerity of both theories through the optic of camp in order to tease out the implications that Stephen's argument about Shakespeare has for James Joyce's aesthetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay looks at the problematic implementations of Joyce's list of corrections across British and American editions of Finnegans Wake. The bulk of the study is an annotated version of the list of corrections, including the "corrections to the corrections.". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay discusses the portrayal of the dog named Garryowen and mongrel in Irish modernity. It says that James W. Redfield's book "Comparative Physiognomy or Resemblances Between Man and Animals," wherein Redfield offers a comparison of Irish people to dogs in respect to snarling, howling, and barking. It also states that James Joyce's "Ulysses," opposes some of what it describes as outrageous and odder claims of Redfield. It states that Joyce portrayed the mongrel Garryowen as dyspeptic.

The article discusses James Joyce's "1904: Space Odyssey." It reveals how Joyce explained his strategy to Frank Budgen regarding the different events which can be resolved into their cosmic physical, and psychical equivalents. It outlines how Bloom and Stephen become heavenly bodies, and wanderers like the stars. It notes that the identification of Bloom as a comet proceeds by incorporating several other identifications and figurative equivalences.

This article focuses on writer James Joyce and his drafts for the book "Finnegans Wake," in which, the author says, there are many gaps. A cache of vignettes for the book was announced by the National Library of Ireland, and they contain drafts that experts did not know existed, including an early version of a "Tristan and Isolde" sketch.

This essay examines how French critic Louis Gillet became an advocate of the book "Ulysses" by James Joyce. In his review of the book "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf, Gillet accused her of ignoring Joyce and domesticating Joyce's harsh characters into much civilized form. Gillet presented a contrast regarding the writing styles of Joyce and Woolf. He considered Woolf's writing genre feminist as she was a woman.

Comments on the newly discovered manuscripts of James Joyce. Description of the first Circe manuscript; Financial value of the manuscripts.

Focuses on the criticism of Wyndham Lewis on the literary works of James Joyce. Information on Lewis' 'Time and Western Man'; Lewis' critique of Joyce into a Marxian register; Discussion on the fable of 'The Ondt and the Gracehoper'; Ways to understand Joyce's playful writing of speaking trees and stones.

Comments on the book `Finnegans Wake,' suggesting that it stages a complex assault on teleological structures that may be discovered in, or imposed on the writings of James Joyce. Reference to criticisms of this book; Examination of the book's text; Thomas Rice's proposed paradigm for reading `Finnegans Wake.'