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Overview
" The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition is a fully integrated and cross-referenced edition of all the extant work-books compiled by Joyce after the completion of Ulysses. It will be published as a series of fascicles, one per authorial notebook, three per scribal notebook, fifty-five in all. This will make individual notebooks available to scholars as they appear and allow critical feedback, laying the foundations for an electronic edition that will be prepared simultaneously. The editorial aim is to bring together all of the information relevant to each note in as concise and simple a way as possible. The Finnegans Wake Notebook Edition will provide a reference library of comprehensively quoted source material-in effect an annotated digest of Joyce's working library-which will serve as a new star-ting point not just for exegesis of Finnegans Wake, but also for biographical, textual, and literary criticism of Joyce. Furthermore, the Edition will allow for a reconstruction of Joyce's intellectual concerns and compositional habits during the drafting of Work in Progress / Finnegans Wake. "A major scholarly achievement and a crucial step towards understanding the book." (T. Killeen in The Irish Times, March 2002, p.10) 20040227 "Synopsis
One of 55 volumes which make Joyce's notebooks available to scholars, this book provides page-by-page transcriptions of VI.B.16—an early, stenographer's-type notebook used by Joyce during the spring of 1924. Each entry includes the Buffalo notebook title and page number, alphabetically tagged notebook units with notes and sources, coding for the color of ink used, the unit's C series notebook address, and a cameo image of the actual page. A 10-page introduction describes the notebook and the sources quoted. Appendices include a table of usage, a first-draft version index, a selective list of sources and topics, and a section of color plates. Distributed by The David Brown Book Company Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR