What is it about?
In 1931, the magazine Experiment, edited by students at Cambridge University, UK, published an extract from Joyce's Work in Progress (the early name for Finnegans Wake) together with an exegetical article that was written for the magazine by Stuart Gilbert with the assistance of Joyce.
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Why is it important?
This publication and Joyce's interaction with the editors of the magazine (particularly Jacob Bronowski) had been overlooked by critics. Scholarship had focused on Parisian magazines and especially Transition due to a belief that Joyce's work was broadly rejected in England in the interwar period.
Perspectives
The article sheds new light on Joyce's readerships during the interwar period.
Dr Eleni Loukopoulou
University of Kent
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This page is a summary of: James Joyce Exhibits at Cambridge's Literary Laboratories, The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, January 2011, The Pennsylvania State University Press,
DOI: 10.5325/jmodeperistud.2.2.0212.
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