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In light of the advance raves for Rose's new edition of Finnegans Wake, I must emphasize the strong evidence against his good judgment:I plan to critique online commentary using Google SideWiki (an rss feed is available at that link)
- Inane claim in 1978 that the FW notebooks "contain nothing original to Joyce"
- Ridiculous 1989 claim about Ulysses that as late as 1915, Joyce "had not yet decided what to do with the Hunter character [ie, Bloom]... beyond having at the back of his mind the notion of his stepping in from the wings somewhere along the line and rescuing Stephen..." (Joyce had been pondering Hunter since 1906!)
- Dishonest 1993 claim that early FW vignettes from 1923-24 were really an entirely unrelated book of short stories inserted into FW as an afterthought
- Absurd 1995 claim that in FW, Joyce was floundering without a plan
- 1995 stylistic idiocy of calling the book "Finnegans wake"
- 1997 edition of Ulysses that freely alters Joyce's punctuation and captalisation
grew up in Mount Merrion (comfortable Dublin suburb)
John O'Hanlon is his brother (one changed name?), a mathematician trained in theoretical physics
high achiever at school
dropped out of UCD after winning scholarship from Oatlands College, Stillorgan, Co Dublin, to study applied maths
c1970: spends year travelling North America
student actuary for 3 months in Dublin pensions trust
returned to the US, meets Tom Cowan, prof of Roman Law, uses his home as a base for studying FW materials in Buffalo
"At a Dublin conference to which he had not been invited, he chose a seat near the front and found himself beside a New York scholar, Tom Cowan, Professor of Roman Law at Rutgers. This man, on hearing of Rose's ambitions in Joyce studies, offered him accommodation in New York and help in seeking out the background to Finnegans Wake in the University of Buffalo... He was greatly helped by the head of the manuscript department, Karl Gay, who gave him a free hand..." [cite]1977: first item in 'A Wake Newslitter' [cite] [CD-ROM]
arranges 30 volumes of JJA
assists Gabler's Ulysses project at University of Munich
1985: founding contributor to 'A Finnegans Wake Circular'
1989: spring: publishes claim that original title of FW was 'Finn's Hotel' in FW Circular
1992: 'Ireland and James Joyce' in Joyce Studies Annual
2000: announces MaMaLuJo Project (CD-ROM of FW) largely funded by Dept of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht [info]
2004? Bruce Arnold; "he was of great service to me in the complete revision and preparation of the third, revised edition of The Scandal of Ulysses, my biography of a 20th century masterpiece. We travelled to New York together to work on a film about Ulysses" [cite]
currently: "gardens passionately on three acres in Dublin's Strawberry Beds and works from home in his high-tech library"; yoga, ornithology
two daughters: 13yo Jane and 9yo Kate (in 2001)
2010: new edition of FW [site]
Sources: bio; Joycean genetics
an edition of (extremely boring) FW notebook VI.B.46
Rose uses this atypical notebook to support his inane claim that the notebooks "contain nothing original to Joyce" [cite]
McHugh review: "Ignore this book at your peril. The times are past when the Buffalo notebooks could be casually dismissed with that perplexing ornament Scribbledehobble. We now have one notebook intelligently edited to constitute a functional component in FW glossary" (Newslitter XV.2 [1978]: 35) [cite]
still the best paraphrase
Theory:
"1. Finnegans Wake is an ordered aggregate of elements each of which can be identified with a unit entered in one of the notebooks.
2. The notebooks are primarily compilations of units, each of which can be identified with a fragment appearing in some external source.
3. The translation of each unit from notebook to draft was intermediated by referring that unit to one of a small number of contextual invariants" (pp xiii-xiv)
Earlier version:
"(1) that each [layer] grew out of its predecessor by the method of numerous discrete additions and augmentations (more bricks than onionskins);
(2) that these additions are single (or multiple conglomerates of) units deriving from the work-books; and
(3) that the collections of units in the work-books are lists (indexes) taken from external sources" (appendix, p332)
probably the best of the lot-- maps and photos
a great work of literary detection working from a partial copy of a Ulysses notebook, VI.D.7
contains the utterly ridiculous claim that as late as 1915, Joyce "had not yet decided what to do with the Hunter character [ie, Bloom]... beyond having at the back of his mind the notion of his stepping in from the wings somewhere along the line and rescuing Stephen..." (p xii) (Joyce had been pondering Hunter since 1906!)
early FW vignettes from 1923-24 purported to be an entirely unrelated book of short stories (Rose-the-theorist at his worst)
detailed account of the evolution of FW, utterly spoiled by Rose's insistence that Joyce was floundering without a plan, that the notebooks are entirely unoriginal, and that the 'Finn's Hotel' stories were spatchcocked on as an afterthought in July 1938
Rose introduces yet-another inanity by eliminating all capitals from Joyce's titles except the first word's (Finnegans wake, A portrait, but still Stephen Hero)
coulda been a contender if Rose hadn't repunctuated it in a totally unJoycean manner
[Lilliput]; {Poldy.com], [Amazon] hardcover
reviews, IrishTimes, Kidd, context
Fritz Senn's table of changes
Changes on first page with preliminary +5 to -5 grade:
"commodius" is changed to "commodious" -3
"and" to "&" +1
"devlinsfirst" broken into two words +3
"Ualu" and "Quaouauh" have some new diacritical marks +1
"Assiegates" becomes more sensible "Assiegales" +4
comma removed after "larms" -2
Also:
"...the splitting up of the last part into four separate sections; the printing of some (though not all) of the song-based material in verse form; the use of different fonts for Shaun’s two fables... a preference for Joyce’s first thoughts over his later, tending towards a more simplified text, and a strong syntactical bias: where a sentence does not 'run' properly, where, for instance, it seems to lack a main verb, Rose is inclined to step in and remedy what he sees as the deficiency." [cite]
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Finnegans Wake:
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thunder :
Quinet :
waves :
[MP3 ALP] :
FrALP :
ItalALP :
ch4 digest :
Finn's Hotel :
JAJquotes :
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