QUILTING POINTS:

David Vichnar will be giving the seminar "Reading Joyce Reading Theory - From the beginning" in Seminar Room 5 of the School of English on Wednesday the 2nd of May at 5.15pm. This seminar is organized by the Quilting Points and James Joyce Reading Groups. Some wine will be served and all are welcome. The abstract is given below. "READING JOYCE READING THEORY - FROM THE BEGINNING" (Abstract) The seminar will focus on the first three stories from Joyce's Dubliners ("The Sisters," "An Encounter" and "Araby"). The paper examines Joyce´s "signature" (as theorised by Derrida), specifically the seemingly contrary effects of Joyce´s writing which in Derrida´s words, "pushes us to the limit" and "compels us to ask what a literary text is and what we should do with it." The discussion will analyse the readiness with which theoretical frameworks can be said to apply to Joyce´s texts by dealing with some of th...

Following on from our successful first meeting and, as previously announced, the next meeting of the new James Joyce  Finnegans Wake  Reading Group will be on  Monday 31 st  October  from 5.00 to 6.30 pm in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English.      We’ll be resuming on page 558 line 33 “Where are we at all? And whenabouts in the name of space?” and proceeding to page 562 or thereabouts.        Readers completely new to the  Finnegans Wake  experience will find helpful brief introductions in the chapter “ Finnegans Wake : Novel and Anti-Novel” in  A Companion to James Joyce  (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), pages 71-98 and “ Finnegans Wake ” in  James Joyce: A Post-culturalist Perspective  (Macmillan-Palgrave, 1992), pp. 98-122.   Richard Brown  r.h.brown@leeds.ac.uk Arthur Rose  enajr@leeds.ac.uk