James S. Atherton
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James S(tephen) Atherton (1910–1985 ) is a British Joyce scholar, former lecturer at Wigan District Minning and Technical College, Wigan, England, and visiting professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1965. In 1959, Atherton published The Books at the Wake: A Study of Literary Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake [1]a work revised and expanded in 1974.It is a detailed study of the written sources Joyce used when composing Finnegans Wake and of the function these sources play in his work. It provided an important foundation for subsequent studies of the diverse literary influences on Joyce's last work. Atherton also wrote the introduction and notes to the 1965 Heinemann edition of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
According to Fritz Senn, who runs the Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Atherton was one of the pioneers on Finnegans Wake. Sennand also remembers meeting him at SUNY Buffalo on one of his sabbaticals in the sixties. Senn remembers also that Atherton took part in his Foundation biannual symposia and that he had contacts with Jacques Lacan and other French intellectuals in 1975 at Sorbonne, Paris. Senn said that: "James Atherton was one of the foremost Joyce scholars at his time, an expert on Finnegans Wake, as I mentioned, but also on Ulysses. He wrote that one standard book on FW and numerous articles, all solid and worth reading. And he annotated a volume of Dubliners, that Heinemann edition, of which we do have a copy in the Zürich Foundation."
Atherton, after spending one year at SUNY Buffalo, returned there on sabbaticals every summer from untill 197 He played an important role helping to organize and doing research at the SUNY Buffalo James Joyce Collection.
Atherton is best known for his masterpiece The Books at the Wake A Study of Literary Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake and his article in Encyclopaedia Britannica about James Joyce. He is also known as the father of the heroine of the graphic novel "Dotter of her Father's Eyes",.Mary M. Talbot, who wrote the argument. She is married to Bryan Talbot, who provided the illustration, winning the 2012 Costa Award. This was Talbot's first graphic novel and it points to a departure from her addressed questions under Critical Discourse Analysis, from which her gender and representations in the use of language are the hallmark.
The real contribution James S. Atherton did was on his analysis, explanation and framing of Finnegans Wake, although he said in the Britannica: "a final literary evaluation of Finnegans Wake will never be made, for such evaluation must follow and be based upon a complete understanding of the book". This understanding was not reached then when Atherton wrote his study, hasn't been agreed as of today and most probably will never happen, because it was meant to be that way by James Joyce. But it is worth a try and perhaps this is the meaning of it, because on doing so, you exercise a path which has a lot of consequences and perhaps this is what it is all about.
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Complete list of works on James Joyce by James S. Atherton
A. Nicholas Fargnoli, Michael Patrick Gillespie, in their book James Joyce A to Z: the Essential Reference to his Life and Work:
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