McFarlin Special Collections
Case 3 (Left side)
Another item of note is Joyce’s gift of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales. Within the pages of Finnegans Wake lie a number of children’s stories including Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Joyce’s word play and the whimsical structure of the Wake frequently mimic nursery rhymes, the most famous being to the unlucky egg Humpty Dumpty who appears in the Wake’s Ballad of Persse O’Reilly
Text from the Squaring the Circle exhibit, March 22-April 19, 2010, of James Joyce materials in the Harriet Shaw Weaver collection.
Case 3 (Left side)
Another item of note is Joyce’s gift of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales. Within the pages of Finnegans Wake lie a number of children’s stories including Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Joyce’s word play and the whimsical structure of the Wake frequently mimic nursery rhymes, the most famous being to the unlucky egg Humpty Dumpty who appears in the Wake’s Ballad of Persse O’Reilly
Text from the Squaring the Circle exhibit, March 22-April 19, 2010, of James Joyce materials in the Harriet Shaw Weaver collection.