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Originally Posted by Razi
Adaline Glasheen wrote A Census of Finnegans Wake 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.
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Actually the Joyce estate, specifically his grandson Stephen, has been notorious in preventing scholars from quoting or reproducing Joyce's text. Apparently Stephen is also well known for showing at up Joyce conferences and berating scholars i.e. telling them that their work is useless, not what granddad had in mind etc. (See the
New Yorker).
I only wish Stephen had succeeded in keeping Joyce off the syllabus when I was in college.
