Let's Talk About James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

A deep dive into James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: can I demystify the text for you? This video has two parts: Part 1 about how to approach the text to make your experience as a reader "easier" (?) and Part 2 concerning themes present in the text. Lots to dig into here! Recommended Resources to Accompany Finnegans Wake: Finnegansweb: https://www.finnegansweb.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by Joseph Campbell Annotations to Finnegans Wake by Roland McHugh Info on the Transposed Letter Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposed_letter_effect#:~:text=Typoglycemia%20(a%20portmanteau%20of%20typo,misplaced%20letters%20in%20the%20words. Recommended Readings: At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien Zettles Traum by Arno Schmidt (Give us a smaller and cheaper copy of this! End the gatekeeping!) Fantasia an Algerian Cavalcade by Assia Djebar Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar