Recreating Finnegans Wake [in its Whole Wholume]
June 16th is Bloomsday, and that means the streets will be filled with people wearing straw boater hats. But if you know what’s good, consider carrying a boombox too — battery-powered and ready to blast your favorite genre of James […]
Waywords and Meansigns is setting James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to music again. Contributors are taking short passages of the Wake — a paragraph, a page, a few pages — to set to music. The result will be a mosaic of […]
Waywords and Meansigns was mentioned in an article and podcast from dwutygodnik, an online culture magazine in Poland. The podcast features a recorded interview with our friend Jakub Wróblewski, known for First We Feel, Then We Fall, a wonderful multimedia adaptation of Finnegans Wake. […]
In June various Waywords and Meanings contributors converged in Dublin and London to celebrate the wild and wonderful world of Finnegans Wake. Some of the highlights included project director Derek Pyle’s talk at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin; an […]
Waywords and Meansigns is headed to Europe! On Tuesday 14 June, Waywords and Meansigns director Derek Pyle will present at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin. Part of their Bloomsday Festival programme, Pyle will discuss the aim and scope of […]
by Sara Jewell Polish writer and translator Krzysztof Bartnicki is no stranger to the multitudes contained within Finnegans Wake, having spent ten years translating the entire book into Polish. While the musicality of Finnegans Wake has always played a large […]