Finn Fordham




Finn Fordham is a lecturer in the Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London and has also taught at the University of Nottingham. His doctoral work examined the influence of Lucia Joyce on the composition of Finnegans Wake. He has published widely on genetic criticism and is author of Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals (Oxford University Press, 2007). Dr. Fordham's research focus on Joyce and on Joyce's final work, in particular, but his interests encompass literary and textual theory and modernism. He has held British Academy and Leverhulme awards for his research and is currently working on a comparative study of the writing processes of modernist writers.




ABSTRACT

"Joyce after Easter" will look at the Wake as a resurrection, at Easter, at Easter risings, (at yeast and Yeats), at ritual dates and ritual sacrifices, at national/ist memories, trauma, etc. I might reflect on the notion of 'relevance' and 'topicality', too and how calendars systematise responses and are themselves a territory for systematising ideology. Beckett's black humour called Good Friday 'this excruciating holiday' - which might set the tone for some of it...