Archive for October 29th, 2007

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Monday, October 29th, 2007

James Joyce and the Cultural Unconscious

I’m thrilled to see Alex’s post about James Joyce, as I believe he figured more of this stuff out than perhaps any other writer in history.
For my last book, Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England, I chose the following passage from Joyce’s novel, Finnegans Wake, for my epigraph:
A bone, a pebble, a ramskin; chip […]

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Monday, October 29th, 2007

German Writing System and James Joyce

This post is about two completely separate topics, but I was thinking about both.
The first thing deals with what Dr. Brooks was saying the other day about the new writing system the Germans introduced prior to the Holocaust.  Erin and I both studied abroad in Poland this past summer with Dr. Krammer, a professor in the history […]

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