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Welcome to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. In this episode we’ll hear Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte reading pages 19 to 24 of Joyce’s last novel, which will include the famous “prankquean” fable, with an introduction by director Adam Seelig.

Richard’s reading (pages 19:20-24:15) was recorded with a live audience in Toronto on 31 August 2022.

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Mentioned: Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), puns, Mother Goose, Hans Christian Andersen, the “prankquean”, linear/nonlinear narrative, fables, fairy tales, tripartite structure, Hope Beer in Howth, Grace O’Malley, Earl of Howth, Howth Castle, Baily Lighthouse, Jarl (Danish “chief”), Eden, Adam and Eve, quean and queen, ancient storytelling cadences, the word “And…”, Hebrew Bible, Genesis, second thunderword, wordplay with twins’

Resources:

Transcript for this episode, including the text of Finnegans Wake pages 19-24.
Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce: there are many free copies of FW to read online or download, e.g. finwake.comJames Joyce Digital Archive, “Chicken Guide” to Finnegans Wake provides a ‘plain English’ paraphrase of

Edmund Epstein, A Guide through Finnegans Wake. University Press of Florida, 2009.

William York Tindall, A Reader’s Guide to Finnegans Wake. Syracuse University Press, 1996.

Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake (4th edition). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2016.

John Gordon’s annotations on his Finnegans Wake blog.

Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce. Oxford University Press, 1982.

Cited:

Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), trans. Joyce Crick. Oxford University Press, 1999.

“Stories of Howth”, Hope Beer website.