Introduction. Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Chapter 14. Chapter 15. Chapter 16. Chapter 17
Biography
Hamid Farahmandian is a researcher in English literature with research interests encompassing Irish modernism, global modernism, postcolonialism, Orientalism, and comparative literature. Farahmandian has undertaken several research projects in these areas. He has conducted a research visit at the University of Victoria in Canada and served as a resident scholar at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation in Switzerland. He further expanded his international experience by visiting the University of Oxford as a funded researcher in late 2024.
“With detailed entries keyed to words and phrases from Joyce’s text, Hamid Farahmandian’s study provides deeply-informed context for the Finnegans Wake’s rich tapestry of allusions to the languages, cultures, religions, history and literature of the region centred around modern-day Iran. From fragments of everyday Persian to the key principles of Zoroastrianism, Iran in Finnegans Wake lays the groundwork for a fresh reading of Joyce’s ‘thousand and one stories, all told’ from the perspective of an ancient and complex cultural and literary tradition.”
-Russell Smith, Australian National University
