Month: January 2017

Art Contest: Ulysses Recovered Book Cover Contest

  • Publication date January 27, 2017
  • Categories: Blog
Dark green book cover with embossed gold design depicting an earth-like planet quartered by hemispheric disks. Surrounding the planet and its cross-sections are small golden roman numerals similar to a clock face.

Ulysses Recovered To celebrate Bloomsday 2017, the James Joyce Quarterly, Booksmart Tulsa, and the Guthrie Green are sponsoring a contest to design a new cover for Joyce’s Ulysses.  We welcome entries in all languages and encourage experimentation with media, typography, and layout.  Select designs will be featured on the JJQ website and displayed as part…Continue Reading Art Contest: Ulysses Recovered Book Cover Contest

Fellowship Opportunity: University at Buffalo, SUNY Special Collections

  • Publication date January 11, 2017
  • Categories: Blog

University at Buffalo, SUNY Libraries Special Collections Fellowships The UB Humanities Institute, in collaboration with the UB Libraries, is offering two fellowships – the James Joyce Fellowship and the Charles D. Abbott Library Fellowship – for visiting scholars and graduate students working on their dissertations to use the UB Libraries’ outstanding special collections, which include…Continue Reading Fellowship Opportunity: University at Buffalo, SUNY Special Collections

Clever, Very: Joshua Kotin

Black and white photo of a man and a woman stand in the threshold of a building, with the street in the background. On the left is a woman, Sylvia Beach, facing partly away from the viewer and looking towards the man, James Joyce, on the right. James Joyce, on the right, is turned towards Beach and partly to the viewer and is looking directly into the camera.

For our latest “Clever, Very” interview, Joshua Kotin at Princeton University talked to us about the Mapping Expatriate Paris: The Shakespeare and Company Lending Library Project (MEP) project. The MEP, which we previously described in one of our blog posts, is a digital humanities project that digitizes the extensive records Sylvia Beach kept for her…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Joshua Kotin

Digital Portrait

  • Publication date January 10, 2017
  • Categories: Blog
A white silhouette of a man wearing jacket and hat in front of a sepiatone painting of a river with an official building in the background. End image description.

We recently discovered that University College Dublin has released a digital multimedia edition of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.  This version of Portrait is broken up into chapters and provides mobile-friendly text as well as some very brief videos helping to explain the novel’s complex and evolving array of characters.  For those of us…Continue Reading Digital Portrait

How To Subscribe to the JJQ

Prices for James Joyce Quarterly vary based on whether the subscriber is an individual or an institution or whether shipment is to an address in the US or abroad. We also provide a slight discount for agents who are purchasing a subscription on behalf of a client.  (Subscription agencies that wish to take advantage of our…Continue Reading How To Subscribe to the JJQ

Volume 52.1

  • Publication date January 9, 2017
  • Categories: Issues

Perspectives Clive Hart (1931-2016) Fritz Senn “Obstructing the thoroughfare”: A Report on the Dublin James Joyce Summer School, 3-9 July 2016 Niels Caul “Real Adventures Must Be Sought Abroad”: Swedish Students Encounter Dublin and the Dubliners Angelica Granqvist Articles Milly Bloom as Blind Spot in Ulysses Katherine Ryan An Abode of Bliss: Plumtree’s Potted Meat…Continue Reading Volume 52.1