Category: Blog

Blog posts are brief updates regarding the goings-on of the James Joyce Quarterly and the Joycean scholastic community.

Fellowship Opportunity: University at Buffalo, SUNY Special Collections

  • Publication date January 11, 2017
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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
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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

Clever, Very: Derek Pyle

A drawing of James Joyce atop a red-orange background covered in text from Finnegans Wake. Joyce is facing the viewer and wearing headphones. His glasses are white. The left lens of his glasses depicts a ear receiving sound waves, and the right lens has a question mark on it in black

For this edition of “Clever, Very”, we spoke with Derek Pyle. Mr. Pyle heads the Waywords and Meansigns project, which seeks to recreate Finnegans Wake to music “in its whole wholume”, a task completed in two 2015 and 2016 editions. Waywords and Meansigns is in the process of taking submissions for a third and final…Continue Reading Clever, Very: Derek Pyle

Mapping Expatriate Project: Cataloging Modernist Paris

  • Publication date November 14, 2016
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A black and white photo of an old storefront. The board above the storefront reads "Shakespeare and Company". Below this sign in the stoop in front of the door is a man with a hat and cane who is identified as James Joyce. Slightly in front of him to the right is a woman with short hair and a long dark overcoat, identified as Sylvia Beach.

Knowledge of a work’s historical context can be of great import in scholarly work. Knowing that an artist or writer had come in contact with particular thoughts and ideas can affect how a particular work was conceived. For example, knowing that Gertrude Stein regularly had tea with Pablo Picasso can lend some insight into how…Continue Reading Mapping Expatriate Project: Cataloging Modernist Paris

Diasporic Joyce: 2017 North American James Joyce Symposium

  • Publication date November 3, 2016
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A minimalist portrait of James Joyce on a white background. The lines that outline his face, hair, and mouth are green, with maroon lettering reading 'Toronto' are places so that they mimic his eyes, nose, and ear. In the bottom-right corner there is the number 2017 in maroon.

As far as historical and cultural impact is concerned, it is difficult to overestimate the impact of the Irish Potato Famine (also called The Great Famine or The Great Hunger), which was caused by failure of potato crops between the years of 1845 and 1852. As the potato was (and is) a cornerstone in traditional…Continue Reading Diasporic Joyce: 2017 North American James Joyce Symposium

Clever, Very: James Fairhall

“The Irish Bogtrotters” by William Elmes. Image © Trustees of the British Museum As part of our efforts to provide new online content to our readers, the James Joyce Quarterly is proud to introduce our new interview series, “Clever, Very”. This series, which takes its name from a headline in the “Aeolus” episode in Ulysses…Continue Reading Clever, Very: James Fairhall

JoyceStick: Creating a Virtual Ulysses

  • Publication date October 20, 2016
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A screenshot showing lines of yellow, magenta, and teal programming text on top of a dark gray background.

With modern technology evolving at a rapid pace, there’s been a lot of interest in how technology will change how we read. While some are predicting the future of reading a text as merely a transition from “real”, printed books to digital e-books, others, such as the interdisciplinary group behind JoyceStick, are exploring how digital…Continue Reading JoyceStick: Creating a Virtual Ulysses