joyceMedia James Joyce, Hypermedia & Textual Genetics edited by Louis Armand þ Litteraria Pragensia Prague 2006 Copyright © Louis Armand, 2004, 2006 Copyright © of individual works remains with the authors. First edition published 2004 by Litteraria Pragensia Second edition published 2006 Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University Náměstí Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Prague 1 Czech Republic www.litterariapragensia.com All rights reserved. This book is copyright under international copyright conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the copyright holders. Requests to publish work from this book should be directed to the publishers. The publication of this book has been supported by: research grant MSM0021620824 “Foundations of the Modern World as Reflected in Literature and Philosophy” awarded to the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, by the Czech Ministry of Education; and by a grant from the Cultural Relations Committee of Ireland / Comhar Cultúra Éireann of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ireland. Cataloguing in Publication Data Joyce Media” James Joyce, Hypermedia & Textual Genetics, edited by Louis Armand.—2nd ed. p. cm. ISBN 80-239-2266-1 (pb) 1. James Joyce. 2. Literary Theory. 3. Hypermedia. 4. Textual Genetics. I. Armand, Louis. II. Title Typeset & design by Lazarus Printed in the Czech Republic by PB Tisk CONTENTS Abbreviations vii Preface ix Louis Armand INTRODUCTION: LITERARY ENGINES 1 \1 Donald F. Theall TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE BOOK IN JOYCE’S DREAM VISION OF DIGICULTURE 28 Mark Nunes GAPS AND CONVERGENCES IN THE JOYCEAN NETWORK 44 Laurent Milesi H Y P E R W A K E 3D 66 Louis Armand FROM HYPERTEXT TO VORTEXT 73 \2 Daniel Ferrer THE WORK OF JOYCE IN THE AGE OF HYPERTEXTUAL PRODUCTION 86 Marlena Corcoran SIRENS TO CYCLOPS: MOMENTARY JUXTAPOSITION IN GENETIC HYPERTEXT 105 Michael Groden PROBLEMS OF ANNOTATION IN A DIGITAL ULYSSES 116 Dirk Van Hulle AN ELECTRONIC STEREOPTICON: DISTRIBUTION AND RE- COMBINATION IN JOYCE’S “GUILTLESS” COPYBOOK (BL 47471B) 133 /3 Thomas Jackson Rice I DO MINCE WORDS, DON’T I? ULYSSES IN TEMPORE BELLI 144 Alan R. Roughley ENTEN: SUBJECTS: BURGESS, SHAKESPEARE, JOYCE [TEXT, INTERTEXT; HYPERTEXT, VORTEX] 152 Darren Tofts ASSESSING THE GREEN BOX ULYSSES: PROLEGOMENA TO JOYCEAN HYPERTEXTUALITY 165 Notes on Contributors 174 ABBREVIATIONS Finnegans Wake has been cited following the standard form used by Joyce scholars, either by page number and line—viz. (278.13)—or, with reference to the accepted division of the text into four books with chapters, by Roman numeral (book) and Arabic numeral (chapter)—viz. (III.2). The following abbreviations are used throughout the text: D Dubliners, ed. Robert Scholes with Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking Press, 1967. P A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The definitive text corrected from the Dublin Holograph by Chester G. Anderson and edited by Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking Press, 1966. U Ulysses. New York: Random House, 1934, reset and corrected 1961. FW Finnegans Wake. London: Faber and Faber, 1939. CW The Critical Writings of James Joyce. Eds. Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking Press, 1959. L Letters of James Joyce. Vol. I, ed. Stuart Gilbert. New York: Viking Press, 1957; re-issued with corrections 1966. Vols. II and III, ed. Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking Press, 1966. SL Selected Letters, ed. Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking Press, 1975. Census Adaline Glasheen, A Census of Finnegans Wake, III vols. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1952; 1963; 1977. JJI Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. London: Oxford University Press, 1959. JJII Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Revised edition. London: Oxford University Press, 1982. AWD A Wake Digest, eds. Clive Hart and Fritz Senn. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1968. AWN A Wake Newslitter FWC A Finnegans Wake Circular JJLS James Joyce Literary Supplement JJQ James Joyce Quarterly JJR James Joyce Review BM British Museum + catalogue number (documents belonging to Joyce, including Finnegans Wake drafts, lodged with the British Museum by Harriet Shaw Weaver. Cf. JJA). JJA James Joyce Archive, ed. Michael Groden, et al. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1977-79. N.B. The correlation of the Finnegans Wake notebooks and drafts within the James Joyce Archive are as follows: JJA 28 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.A JJA 29 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.B.1-4 JJA 30 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.B.5-8 JJA 31 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.B.9-12 vii JJA 32 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.B.13-16 JJA 33 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.B.17-20 JJA 34 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.B.21-24 JJA 35 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.B.25-28 JJA 36 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.B.29-32 JJA 37 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.B.33-36 JJA 38 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.B.37-40 JJA 39 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.B.41-44 JJA 40 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.B.45-50 JJA 41 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.C.1,2,3,4,5,7 JJA 42 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.C.6,8,9,10,16,15 JJA 43 Finnegans Wake: Buffalo Notebooks VI.C.12,13,14,17,11,18 JJA 44 Finnegans Wake: Bk. I.1, Drafts, TSS and Proofs JJA 45 Finnegans Wake: Bk. I.2-3, Drafts, TSS and Proofs JJA 46 Finnegans Wake: Bk. I.4-5, Drafts, TSS and Proofs JJA 47 Finnegans Wake: Bk. I.6-7, Drafts, TSS and Proofs JJA 48 Finnegans Wake: Bk. I.8, Drafts, TSS and Proofs JJA 49 Finnegans Wake: Bk. I, Galley Proofs, Vol.1 JJA 50 Finnegans Wake: Bk. I, Galley Proofs, Vol.2 JJA 51 Finnegans Wake: Bk. II.1, Drafts, TSS and Proofs JJA 52 Finnegans Wake: Bk. II.2, Drafts, TSS and Proofs, Vol.1 JJA 53 Finnegans Wake: Bk. II.2, Drafts, TSS and Proofs, Vol.2 JJA 54 Finnegans Wake: Bk. II.3, Drafts, TSS and Proofs, Vol.1 JJA 55 Finnegans Wake: Bk. II.3, Drafts, TSS and Proofs, Vol.2 JJA 56 Finnegans Wake: Bk. II.4, Drafts, TSS and Proofs JJA 57 Finnegans Wake: Bk. III.1-2, Drafts, TSS and Proofs JJA 58 Finnegans Wake: Bk. III.3, Drafts, TSS and Proofs, Vol.1 JJA 59 Finnegans Wake: Bk. III.3, Drafts, TSS and Proofs, Vol.2 JJA 60 Finnegans Wake: Bk. III.4, Drafts, TSS and Proofs JJA 61 Finnegans Wake: Bk. III, transition Pages JJA 62 Finnegans Wake: Bk. III, Galley Proofs JJA 63 Finnegans Wake: Bk. IV, Drafts, TSS and Proofs viii PREFACE The genesis of this book extends back over the last ten years, during which time it has taken a number of different conceptual forms, few of which resemble the current volume whose realisation has been, in many senses, fortuitous and linked to an equally fortuitous event—the Prague James Joyce Colloquium, held in September 2003, to address the topic of “Joycean Genetics and Hypertext.” The Colloquium participants included Derek Attridge, Daniel Ferrer, Stacey Herbert, Laurent Milesi, Luca Crispi, Vincent Deane, Alan Roughley, myself, and (in absentia) Michael Groden, Fritz Senn and Sam Slote. In certain respects the Colloquium was a type of re-union. At the James Joyce Symposium in Seville, in 1994, I first encountered Daniel Ferrer’s work on hypertextual applications to the genetic analysis of “avant- textes,” along with Laurent Milesi’s work on textual genetics. Alan Roughley, myself and Darren Tofts shared a panel on “Joyce’s Philosophical Intertexts” (Tofts’s paper from that event, on Joyce and Duchamp, is reproduced here). It was also the last Symposium that Bernard Benstock attended, shortly prior to his untimely death, and in many respects marked the end point of an important stage in the critical-theoretical engagement with Joyce’s texts. It would be another five years before work like Alan Roughley’s Reading Derrida Reading Joyce would finally get to print, having been commissioned under Benstock’s editorship at the University Press of Florida’s Joyce series. That a distinct stage in Joyce “theory” was about to emerge—separate from the mainstream of “method” theorising (applying to Joyce the latest theory that comes along)—became evident the following June, at Brown University where, on the initiative of Bob Scholes, Daniel Ferrer presented a keynote address on Joycean hypertext (as well as a hypertext demonstration in partnership with the Intermedia Lab) alerting the world to the fact of a major development in both the theoretical and practical engagement with Joyce’s texts, one which, far from being simply a “method,” had its genesis in the work itself (and the work-in-progress) of Joyce. The Brown conference also saw the first panel discussion of Joycean hypertext, chaired by Morris Beja, with Bill Brockman, Jim LeBlanc, and myself. This was followed at the Chicago MLA convention that December by a panel discussion on the question of “Theorising Knowledge in/of the Joycean Text,” chaired by Margot Norris, with Michael Groden, myself and Paul Saint Amour. And it was at this event, during a reception at the Hyatt Regency hosted by the then Joyce Foundation president, Karen Lawrence, that the idea of this volume first seriously arose—in a discussion that involved Derek Attridge, Sheldon Brivic, Brandon Kershner and the editor-in-chief of FUP, Walda Metcalf. ix During 1994 and 1995, numerous hypermedia projects focused on Joyce— many with pedagogical intentions—were being undertaken, often spontaneously and independently of one another, in Australia, Europe and North America. In large part this was due to the fact that in 1991 the majority of Joyce’s work had moved out of copyright, followed by a rash of publishing activity, not only within the conventional publishing industry, but also online and on CD-ROM.