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Originally Posted by Razi
Adaline Glasheen wrote A Census of Finnegans Wake between 1950s and 1970s, a handbook listing every single character in Joyce's monster of a masterpiece. I was so thankful to her effort when I studied Joyce in early 1990s. I couldn't have understood the book without Glasheen's work. As far as I am aware, Joyce was not in public domain till 1997. Did Joyce's estate sue her for writing this book? It only made Joyce more accessible and, indirectly, more popular. Most copy-rights fanatics are terribly short-sighted. One good turn deserves another, guess what, A Census of Finnegans Wake is available on the web. The book has had three editions and must have sold some copies, still the late author's son chose to set it free. Go on, there is no excuse for not buying and reading Finnegans Wake now:
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi...sheenFinnegans |
I have a copy of "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson, copyright 1944. The opening of the Acknowledgements reads "We wish to thank the Viking Press for permission to paraphrase and quote from Finnegans Wake." Both Joyce's works and the Campbell book are published by Viking Press. I would certainly think you'll find something similar in Glasheen's work.