823.JOY

823.JOY is an exploration of the way one book generates a constellation of others. Taking James Joyce's Finnegans Wake as its gravitational centre, the project traces the proliferating network of criticism, commentary and interpretation that surrounds his work. This expanding bibliographic ecosystem becomes an artwork in itself: a map of how reading begets more reading, how one text catalyses countless others. By collecting and arranging these secondary books, 823.JOY foregrounds bibliography as an artistic practice, revealing the invisible architecture linking libraries, marginalia and scholarly research. What emerges is not simply a collection, but a living structure: a portrait of intellectual recursion, intertextual dependence and the uncanny fertility of Joyce’s writing.

The classification 823.JOY refers to a library shelf mark (Dewey Decimal System) for works by or about Irish novelist James Joyce (1882–1941), specifically within the English literature section (800s) for Irish fiction (823).

Finnegans Wake, James Joyce, Faber & Faber, 1975

Ulysses, James Joyce, Random House, 1046

Anna Livia Plurabelle, James Joyce, Faber & Faber, 1930

Haveth Childers Everywhere, James Joyce, Faber & Faber, 1931

Two Tales of Shem and Shaun, James Joyce, Faber & Faber, 1932

Anna Livia Plurabelle, James Joyce, Faber and Faber Library Edition, 1997

Joyce's Scribbledehobble: The Ur-Workbook for Finnegans Wake, James Joyce, Thomas E Connolly (Ed.), Nortwestern University Press, 1961

Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Brion, Frank Budgen, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Victor Llona, Robert McAlmon, Thomas McGreevy, Elliot Paul, John Rodker, Robert Sage, William Carlos Williams, Faber & Faber, 1972

A Lexicon of The German in Finnegans Wake, Helmut Bonheim, University of California Press, 1967

The Sensual Philosophy: Joyce and the Aesthetics of Mysticism, Colleen Jaurretche, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997

The Sigla of Finnegans Wake, Roland McHugh, Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd, 1976

A Census of Finnegans Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles, Adaline Glasheen, Northwestern University Press, 1956

A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake, William York Tindall, Thames and Hudson, 1969

Structure and Motif in Finnegans Wake, Clive Hart, Faber & Faber, 1962

Hermes to his Son Thoth: Being Joyce's Use of Giordano Bruno in Finnegans Wake, Frances M. Boldereff, Classic Non-Fiction Library, 1968

A Gaelic Lexicon for Finnegans Wake, Brendan O Hehir, University of California Press, 1967

Shakespeare and Joyce: A Study of Finnegans Wake, Vincent John Cheng, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984

James Joyce and Heraldry, Michael J. O'Shea, State University of New York Press, 1986

Alchemy and Finnegans Wake, Barbara DiBernard, State University of New York, 1980

A Conceptual Guide to Finnegans Wake, Michael H. Begnal and Fritz Senn (eds.), Pennsylvania State University Press, 1974

James Joyce, Joseph Majault, Pendragon House, 1971

The Grand Continuum: Reflections on Joyce and Metaphysics, David A. White, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983

On the Void of to Be: Incoherence and Trope in Finnegans Wake, Susan Shaw Sailer, The University of Michigan Press, 1993

How Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake: A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide, Luca Crispi and Sam Slote (eds.), University of Wisconsin Press, 2007 

James Joyce in Context, John McCourt, Cambridge University Press

A First-Draft Version of Finnegans Wake, David Joyce (Ed), James Hayman, Faber & Faber, 1963

Joyce's Use of Colours: Finnegans Wake and the Earlier Works, J.Colm O'Sullivan, UMI Research Press, 1987

LET ME BE LOS: Codebook for Finnegans Wake, Frances Phipps, Station Hill Press, 2010

The Double Life of Issy Earwicker: Victorian Values in the Mirror of Finnegans Wake, Christian Hein, Königshausen & Neumann, 2012

Joyce-Agains Wake: Analysis of Finnegans Wake, Bernard Benstock, University of Washington, 1965

Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake, Finn Fordham, Oxford University Press, 2007

The Books at the Wake, James S. Atherton, Southern Illinois University Press, 1974

James Joyce's 'Work in Progress': Pre-Book Publications of Finnegans Wake Fragments, Dirk Van Hulle, Routledge, 2016

Who's He When He's at Home?: James Joyce Directory, Shari Benstock and Bernard Benstock, University of Illinois Press, 1980

Joyce's Uncertianty Principle, Phillip F. Herring, Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press, 2014

A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson 

A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake, William York Tindall 

A Guide Through Finnegans Wake, Edmund Lloyd Epstein, University Press of Florida, 2010

Joyce Upon the Void: The Genesis of Doubt, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Palgrave Macmillan, 1991 

Joycean Occasions: Essays from the Milwaukee James Joyce Conference, University of Delaware Press, 1991

James Joyce: The Undiscover'd Country, Bernard Benstock, Gill and Macmillan, 1977

Children's Lore in Finnegans Wake, Grace Eckley, Syracuse University Press, 1985

Coping with Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium, Morris Beja, Shari Benstock, Ohio State University Press, 1989

James Joyce: The Centenial Symposium, Morris Beja, Phillip Herring, Maurice Harmon (Eds), University of Illinois Press, 1990

Notes for Joyce, Don Gifford, Robert J Siedman, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1974

The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce, Derek Attridge (Ed), Cambridge University Press, 2004

The Middle Ages of James Joyce: The Aesthetics of Chaosmos, Umberto Eco, University of Tulsa, 1989

Joyce and Dante – The Shaping Imagination, Mary Trackett Reynolds, Princeton University Press, 1981

Twelve and a Tilly, J.P. Dalton, Clive Hart (Eds), Faber & Faber, 1996

Transcultural Joyce, Karen R. Lawrence (Ed), Cambridge University Press, 1998

The Exile of James Joyce, Helene Cixous, David Lewis, Inc., 1972

Critical Essays on James Joyce, Bernard Benstock, G K Hall & Co, 1985

The Sacred River: An Approach to James Joyce, L.A. Strong, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1951

Joyce in Trieste: An Album of Risky Readings, Sebastian D. G. Knowles, Geert Lernout , John Mccourt (Eds), University Press of Florida, 2007

Joyce's Catholic Comedy of Language, Beryl Schlossman, University of Wisconsin Press, 1985

New Light on Joyce from the Dublin Symposium, Fritz Senn (Ed), Indiana University Press, 1972

Provections to Gyre: A Rhetorical Reading of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, B. Lee Ligon-Borden, Hulden Publications, 2014

Eternal Geomater: The Sexual Universe of Finnegans Wake, Margaret C. Solomon, Southern Illinois University Press, 1969

The Cyclical Night: Irony in James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges, L A Murillo, Harvard University Press, 1968

Scandinavian Elements in Finnegans Wake, Dounia Bunis Christiani, Northwestern University Press, 1965

Joyce and Aquinas, William T. Noon, Archon Books, 1970

The Riddles of Finnegans Wake, Patrick A. McCarthy, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980 

James Joyce, William York Tindall, Grove Press, 1960

The Sound of Finnegans Wake, Peter Myers, Palgrave Macmillan, 1992

A Bash in the Tunnel: James Joyce by the Irish, John Ryan (Ed), Clifton Books, 1970

Joyce's Book of the Dark, John Bishop, University of Wisconsin Press, 1986

Joyce: The Return of the Repressed, Susan Stanford Friedman, Cornell University Press, 1993

De-familiarizing Readings: Essays from the Austin Joyce Conference, Alan Warren Friedman, Charles Rossman (Eds), Editions Rodopi B.V.

The Decentralised Universe of Finnegans Wake, Margot Norris, John Hopkins University Press, 1977

New Alliances in Joyce Studies: When Its Aped to Foul a Dephian, Bonnie Kime Scott, University of Delaware Press, 1988

Narrator and Character in Finnegans Wake, Michael H. Begnal and Grace Eckley, Bucknell University Press, 1981

Joyce's Metamorphosis, Stanley Sultan, University Press of Florida, 2001

The Seventh of Joyce, Bernard Benstock (Ed), University of Indiana Press, 1982

Names and Naming in Joyce, Claire Culleton, University of Wisconsin Press, 1994

Post-Structuralist Joyce, Derek Attridge and Daniel Ferrer, Cambridge University Press, 1985

Index of Recurent Elements in James Joyce's Ulysses, William M. Schutte, Southern Illinois University Press, 1982

A Bibliography of James Joyce Studies, Robert H Deming, University of Kansas Libraries, 1964 

An Annotated Critical Bibliography of James Joyce, Thomas F. Staley, Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1988

Teller and Tale in Joyce's Fiction: Oscillating Perspectives, John Paul Riquelme, John Hopkins University Press, 1983

James Joyce and his World, Chester Anderson, Thames and Hudson, 1967

James Joyce: The Artist and the Labyrinth, Augustine Martin, Ryan Publishing, 1990

The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, James Joyce, Catherine Flynn (Ed), Cambridge University Press, 2022

Annotations to Finnegans Wake, Roland McHugh, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991