ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For detailed readings of the manuscript at various stages of production, I am indebted to Bernard Benstock, Robert M. Jordan, and Lorna Weir. For travel grants which made it possible for me to read early formulations of some of the material on Vico and Finnegans Wake in Venice (1985) and on catechism and catachresis in Copenhagen (1986), I am indebted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Without a Leave Fellowship from the same agency in 1984—85 and a year’s leave from the English Department of the University of British Columbia, this project would have been impossible. Without Paul Bouissac’s invitation to give a version of the manuscript as a course on “Semiotics of the Joyce System” at the Ninth International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies in Toronto in 1987, Writing Joyce might have gone on forever. Thanks to Thomas A. Sebeok, its end became a new beginning.

Portions of this book have appeared in earlier forms in Texte, the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, and Coping with Joyce, ed. M. Beja and S. Benstock (Ohio Univ. Press, forthcoming).

I want also to thank my students in Vancouver and Toronto who have made theorizing in the classroom a joyous activity, often at times when its prospects otherwise in Canadian universities seemed bleakest; my research assistant, Cindy Flanders, who found footnotes and remained patient through an epic summer; Peter Quartermain, my teacher in all things Zukofskian; Mieke Bal and Wladimir Krysinski for support and encouragement; and, last and first, Peig McTague.

Extracts and diagram from the translation by Richard Miller of Sade/Fourier/Loyola by Roland Barthes are copyright 1976 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. and are used by permission of Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.

Extracts and diagrams from Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea by John Haugeland are copyright 1985 by the MIT Press and are used by permission.

Extracts from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce are copyright 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, 1944 by Nora Joyce, copyright (c) 1964 by the Estate of James Joyce. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin Inc.

Extracts from Finnegans Wake are copyright 1939 by James Joyce, copyright renewed (c) 1967 by George Joyce and Lucia Joyce. All rights reserved. Extracts are used by permission of the Society of Authors as the literary representative of the Estate of James Joyce, by Viking Penguin Inc., and by Faber and Faber.

Extracts from Ulysses: The Corrected Text by James Joyce, ed. Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior, are used by permission of the Executors of the James Joyce Estate, Random House Inc. and the Bodley Head.

Extracts from The New Science of Giambattista Vico are reprinted from the Unabridged Translation of the Third Edition (1744) with the addition of “Practic of the New Science,” translated by Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Fisch. Copyright 1948 by Cornell University. Used by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press.

Extracts from “A”, Bottom: On Shakespeare and Prepositions by Louis Zukofsky are reprinted by permission of the University of California Press.

Diagram from Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language by Umberto Eco is used by permission of Indiana University Press.