IASIL 2005 Charles University, Prague
Ireland – A Global Village?
25-28 July 2005

The James Joyce Notebooks

The National Library of Ireland’s acquisition in 2000 of previously unknown Ulysses notebooks—including a draft of the famous last chapter—has reopened interest in the study of Joyce’s notebooks in general. A recent exhibition at the National Library has showcased not only the Ulysses texts, but also the previously lost ‘Pola Notebook,’ and the highly intriguing Finnegans Wake notebooks. With the legal status of Joyce’s notebooks still a highly contentious issue (cf. the case of Dannis Rose), their importance for scholars extends beyond an interest in literary arcana to the very basis of scholarly practice under the guarantee of fair use provisions of copyright law.

Chair: Louis Armand (Charles University, Prague)

Panellists:
Michael Groden (University of Western Ontario)
Ulysses: A Biography

Katie Brown (Trinity College Dublin)
Harmony or Dissonance?: James Joyce and the ‘Sirens’ Drafts

Alexandra Dumitrescu (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Bootstrapping Finnegans Wake in Search for Truth