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The Modernist Versions Project’s Year of Ulysses (YoU) initiative will introduce James Joyce’s masterpiece to its widest audience ever, provoke people to read it, support them as they do so, and bring this novel of the everyday back into everyday life.
The MVP is thrilled to present the next installment of the YoU Lecture Series: Alan W. Friedman’s “Reading Ulysses at 90.”
I’m currently wrapping up a first round of work on a tool—currently being referred to as modVers—that creates an HTML interface for versioned texts encoded with TEI. To allow for flexible use, the tool is implemented as a jQuery plugin—a working prototype is available on GitHub, and there’s technical documentation there as well. Comments and questions to carter.daniel.w@gmail.com are always appreciated.
This point in the development process seemed like a good time to think about some broad lessons learned and future directions for work.
The first results are now in for my work on versioning Tarr. And they’re fascinating.
I decided to begin by looking at a scene about versions, and indeed filled with the word “version.” It occurs near the middle of the novel (Part IV, Chapter 5 in the 1928 edition) and at a key moment. Bertha—her fiancé Tarr having somewhat equivocally broken up with her—is out for an evening with her friends when she is accosted in the street by the unstable Kreisler, who suddenly kisses her. Read more
Below is the schedule of Chapter Releases, Lectures, and Twitter Chats (#yearofulysses) for Year of Ulysses 2012-13.
On the left, the watercolour of Joyce is by Robert Amos.
Thank you in advance for participating in these events.