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Professor Elyse Graham Jean.Graham@Stonybrook.Edu Professor Elyse Graham [email protected] Joyce and the Graveyard of Digital Empires Mondays, 1PM - 3:50PM A survey of digital media scholarship from 1970 to 2000 that takes as its focal point Joyce's 1922 novel, Ulysses—one of the most influential literary works of the 20th century—this seminar investigates major theories of media and literature in relation to the emergence of electronic media technologies. Drawing upon critical theory, media history, and specific artistic and scholarly projects in old and new media, the course asks how and why Joyce came to be used as a defining figure of the "golden age" of hypertext theory: both an exemplary artist and an ultimate editorial challenge. Of special interest to the course is the fate of scholarly projects that took Joyce as their subject, for the challenges of sustainability that the first wave of digital scholarly projects encountered—challenges that reflect on more general problems of preservation in the digital environment, like data corruption, memory failures, and link rot—give rise to important questions about loss, failure, and memory in the history of the digital humanities. Themes that the course explores include hypertext theory, poststructuralist theory, electronic scholarly projects, histories of computing, histories of the book, concepts of the “social text,” and the history of predictions about the fate of traditional written forms in an electronic world. Authors and works include James Joyce, Marshall McLuhan, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, George Landow, Jay David Bolter, Hans Walter Gabler, Michael Groden, Jerome McGann, and interactive digital texts. Aug 27 Introduction & Syllabus Sept 3 James Joyce, Ulysses, “Telemachus” (1922) W. Speed Hill, “Where Would Anglo-American Textual Criticism Be If Shakespeare Had Died of the Plague in 1593?” (2000) Joseph Turow, “On Not Taking the Hyperlink for Granted” (2008) Recommended: Michael Mahoney, “The Histories of Computing(s)” (2005) Alan Liu, “The Meaning of the Digital Humanities” (2013) Sept 10 James Joyce, Ulysses, “Nestor,” “Proteus” (1922) Walter Ong, “Writing Is a Technology that Restructures Thought” (1985/6) Marshall McLuhan, from The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962) Elyse Graham, “The Printing Press as Metaphor” (2016) Recommended: Matthew Kirschenbaum, “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s It Doing in English Departments?” (2010) Sept 17 James Joyce, Ulysses, “Calypso” (1922) Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think” (1945) Ted Nelson, from Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974) Ted Nelson, from Literary Machines (1981) Recommended: John Unsworth, “Scholarly Primitives: What Methods Do Humanities Researchers Have in Common, and How Might our Tools Reflect this?” (2000) Daniel Rosenberg, “As We May Think About the Scholarly Primitives” (2011) Sept 24 James Joyce, Ulysses, “Lotus Eaters,” “Hades,” (1922) Donald Theall, “James Joyce and the Pre-History of Cyberspace” (1992) Darren Tofts, “James Joyce and the Poetics of Hypertextuality” (2002) George Landow, from Hypertext (1992) Recommended: George Landow, “Twenty Minutes into the Future: Or How Are We Moving Beyond the Book?” (1997) John Lavagnino, “Reading, Scholarship, and Hypertext Editions” (1995) Todd Rohman and Deborah Holdstein, “Ulysses Unbound: Examining the Digital (R)evolution of Narrative Context” (1999-00) Oct 1 James Joyce, Ulysses, “Aeolus” (1922) Hans Walter Gabler, “Computer-Aided Critical Edition of Ulysses” (1981) Charles Rossman, “The New Ulysses: The Hidden Controversy” (1988) John Kidd, “Errors of Execution in the 1984 Ulysses” (1990) Hans Walter Gabler, “A Response to John Kidd” (1990) Oct 15 James Joyce, Ulysses, “Lestrygonians,” “Scylla and Charybdis” (1922) Michael Groden, “Perplex in the Pen—and in the Pixels: Reflections on the James Joyce Archive, Hans Walter Gabler’s Ulysses, and ‘James Joyce’s Ulysses in Hypermedia” (1998-9) Michael Groden, “Introduction to ‘James Joyce’s Ulysses in Hypermedia’” (2001) Paper Proposal and Bibliography due (in class and via e-mail) Oct 22 James Joyce, Ulysses, “Wandering Rocks” (1922) Jerome McGann, “Ulysses as a Postmodern Text: The Gabler Edition” (1985) Jacques Derrida, “Two Words for Joyce” (1982) Roland Barthes, from S/Z (1973) Recommended: Jean-Michel Rabaté, “Lapsus Ex Machina” (1984) Oct 29 James Joyce, Ulysses, “Sirens,” “Cyclops” (1922) Robert Coover, “Literary Hypertext: The Passing of the Golden Age” (1999) Jonathan Zittrain, from “The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It” (2008) Nov 5 James Joyce, Ulysses, “Nausicaa” (1922) Nov 12 James Joyce, Ulysses, “Oxen of the Sun” (1922) Mark Marino, “Ulysses on Web 2.0: Towards a Hypermedia Parallax Engine” (2007) José van Dijk, “Facebook as a Tool for Producing Sociality and Connectivity” (2012) José van Dijk, “Facebook and the Engineering of Connectivity” (2013) Paper Draft due (in class and via e-mail) Nov 19 James Joyce, Ulysses, “Circe,” part 1 (1922) Amanda Visconti, “Infinite Ulysses” (2015-6) Amanda Visconti, “Designing Digital Editions: Inclusivity vs. the Literary Canon” (2014) Recommended: Alan Galey, “Designing a Digital Edition of The Taming of a Shrew” (2009) Nov 26 James Joyce, Ulysses, “Circe,” part 2 (1922) Jonathan Reeve, “A Critical Open Edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses” (2016) Jonathan Reeve, “A Macro-Etymological Analysis of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” (2016) Dec 3 James Joyce, Ulysses, “Eumaeus,” “Ithaca” (1922) Lightning presentations Dec 20 Paper Revision due (via e-mail) .
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