James Joyce's 'Work in Progress'

James Joyce's Finnegans Wake grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. In this publication history, Dirk Van Hulle examines the interaction between the private composition process and the public life of Joyce's 'Work in Progress', from the creation of the separate sections through their publication in periodicals and collections. Van Hulle shows that these texts are not just preparatory versions of Finnegans Wake but a 'Work in Progress' in their own right.