Michael Groden
email: mgroden@uwo.ca - Web page: http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/


Flying By the Net:

James Joyce in Cyberspace (1)

"Catalogue these [cyber]books"


an article from the James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Fall 1997 [published October 1998], pp. 129-147

© 1997, The University of Tulsa



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D. Specialized Joyce Web Sites

(items 14-57)


14) ANALOGY: THE FINNEGANS WAKE WEB SITE

Michael P. Brewster

"Analogy," still getting underway, is an attempt to annotate Finnegans Wake hypertextually. A sample Wake page is being developed. The site also includes Terence Ritchie's annotations and discussions of specific sections of the Wake.


15) ANTWERP JAMES JOYCE CENTRE

Sam Slote, Antwerp James Joyce Centre and Boston University

This "genetic criticism site (cunningly) designed and (silently) maintained by Sam Slote (in exile)" contains online articles by Joyce Centre members, a bibliography of genetic studies of Joyce, as well as information about "Genitricksling Joyce"Ñthe genetic studies conference held at the Centre in May 1997Ñand links to other Joyce sites.


16) BILL CADBURY'S HOME PAGE

Bill Cadbury, University of Oregon

Bill Cadbury's "Index to the Line References in Finnegans Wake," compiled with Donald Theall, identifies criticism and scholarship for each line of the Wake. A separate document provides references to the Wake in the "Scribbledehobble" notebook (Buffalo VI.A) and the "Index Manuscript" (Buffalo notebook VI.B.46). Cadbury has also provided a sample markup of a small section of the Wake (48.1-9) in a different location on his site. A small section of an elaborate composition timeline for the Wake is also available separately.


17) BLOOMSCYBERDAY

Universo Online, Brazil, and the Irish Times

Bloomscyberday "aims to produce a collective multimedia book written in cyberspace." It invites contributions. Categories include "Bloomsday," "Ulysses," "James Joyce," "Context," "Critical Studies," "Quotations of Joyce," "Newsgroups," and "Gallery."


18) BOHEMIAN INK

Levity.com (originally set up by Robert Daeley)

Bohemian Ink is part of a large "Online Review of the History and Future of Experimental Literature and Poetry" that groups authors into such categories as Historical, Modern, Beat, Global, and Indie. Its Joyce section (follow Historical and then Authors) contains links to many Joyce sites and home pages; to online Joyce works and articles, essays, and reviews; to information about the discussion lists; and to information about works related to or inspired by Joyce.


19) BRANDON KERSHNER'S PORTRAIT PAGE

R. Brandon Kershner, University of Florida

Brandon Kershner's site contains his extensive biographical and critical essays on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and also notes to the novel.


20) BROWN UNIVERSITY, ENGLISH 32: SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1750 TO THE PRESENT

George P. Landow and Ho Lin, Brown University

This site contains The Joyce Web, a collection of hypertextually-linked documents (using Storyspace software) constructed in a course that George Landow taught at Brown University. A description of the Web is available at the http address, and the documents can be downloaded (for Macintosh machines only) at an ftp address (ftp = "file transfer protocol"). Download three files: "Joyce.bin," "Storyspace_Demonstration.bin," and "Read First (Directions).bin." The Web itself consists of various essays and projectsÑsome by Landow, some by his students, and some taken from published sourcesÑgrouped into such categories as Biography, Philosophy, Works, Cultural Context: Modernism, Artistic Relations, Literary Relations, Political and Social Context, Economic Context, Literary Techniques, Themes, and Bibliographies. The Ulysses section deals with "Nausicaa."


21) CHAMBER MUSIC

Producciones HL, Peru

The poems in Chamber Music can be found at this site, with some presented interlinearly in English and Spanish translation and some in Spanish only. Each poem is accompanied by a photograph, ranging from such expected images as Joyce playing a guitar to wildly unexpected ones (Kate Moss!).


22) CLONGOWES WOOD COLLEGE WEB SITE

Joyce is included in the section on "Celebrated Past Pupils."


23) COLLIDEORSCAPE

Tony Hammond

CollideorScape, which is seeking an Internet home, is a search engine for Joycean works (Dubliners, A Portrait, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake). Users can search for words or strings of letters with several available options.


24) COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION

The Cosmic Baseball Association site contains records, player biographies, and other information about this baseball league, which goes back at least to 1981. (Robert Coover's Universal Baseball Association lives!) James Joyce is a pitcher for Paradise Pisces, the league's elite team. ("It is a sign of great cosmic playing success to get the call to play on CBA's flagship team.") In 1995 Joyce's record was 17-10, with an Earned Run Average of 3.77. Other 1997 members of the Pisces include Virginia Woolf, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Luis Buñuel, Hollis Frampton, Sitting Bull, Al Capone, Sigmund Freud, Timothy Leary, Mary Jo Kopechne, Louis Farrakhan, Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, and the Marquis de Sade. The team's field manager is Henry Miller, and Anaïs Nin is the general manager. [JB]


25) THE DUBLINERS TEACHERS GUIDE

A teachers guide to Dubliners by James R. Cope and Wendy Patrick Cope is available at this site.


26) DYOUBLONG: A CELEBRATION OF DUBLIN, JOYCE, AND BLOOMSDAY

William Hederman, Irish Times

Despite its name from the Wake, this site is an "Online Bloomsday" set up by the Irish Times. In such sections as "The Artist: James Joyce," "The Novel: Ulysses," "The Times: 1904," "The City: Dublin," "The Citizens," and "The Celebrations," the site features expected and unexpected articles and other contributions from Times writers and other Dubliners. The Joyce section includes a brief history of Joyce, an article by Richard Ellmann, and a discussion of Joyce and exile by Terence Killeen. The Ulysses part includes Killeen's discussion of the novel, a bluffer's guide by Kevin Myers, Gerry Dukes's review of Danis Rose's "Reader's Edition," Brendan McWilliams on the role of weather in Ulysses, David Norris's reading of two passages (via Real Audio), and Janette Mooney's depiction of Bloom's and Stephen's wanderings through Dublin in the form of the London Underground map (this map was part of a Dublin Institute of Technology site called "All Prick and No Pence," a now-defunct site to which several of the sites listed here still provide a link).The Dublin section includes a virtual tour of Dublin and turn-of-the-century photographs from the Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland. The other sections include various articles and advertisements from the June 16, 1904 issue of the Irish Times, interviews with present-day Dubliners on Joyce's impact in Dublin today, and also interviews with participants at the 1997 Bloomsday celebrations in Dublin (these interviews accessible via Real Audio).


27) EAR'S EYE FOR JAMES JOYCE

Susan Weil and Adrienne Wortzel

This site features twenty-five of Susan Weil's drawings based on Joyce's works, including not only Dubliners, A Portrait, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake but also Epiphanies, Giacomo Joyce, and Joyce's notebooks.


28) EUROJOYS: THE EUROPEAN JAMES JOYCE FORUM

Barney Engelhart, University of Mainz, and Hans Walter Gabler, University of Munich

The European James Joyce Forum plans to "provide a permanent panel for Joyceans of all faculties who carry out research in the Old World." The site, still getting underway, contains such sections as a Directory, Project Outline, a link to the International James Joyce Foundation, the Geneticists' Page (a link to an essay from the Antwerp Joyce Centre; site 15); Red-Hot Issues, which includes Fritz Senn's review (in German) of Danis Rose's edition of Ulysses and also Gerry Dukes's review from the Irish Times; and Symposia and Conferences.


29) XV INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, 16-22 JUNE 1996

Michael O'Shea, Newberry College

This site contains the program for the 1996 Joyce symposium.


30) FINN DE SIÈCLE AND JOYCE WEB RESOURCES

Paul G. Beidler and TS Fulk, University of Toronto

The link from this title, plus two other URLs (Joyce and Finn), contain information about the University of Toronto's Finnegans Wake Reading Group and links to other Joyce sites. The sites seem to be unchanged since spring 1996.


31) FINNEGANS WAKE: STUDIES IN KEY EPISODES

Mikio Fuse, Japan

Mikio Fuse's site, still under development, includes the text of selected passages of the Wake, an indication of genetic strata, and hypertext annotations. The plan is to include transcriptions from the Buffalo notebooks. There is also a bibliography of online and print resources.


32) FINNEGANS WEB: A WEBIFIED VERSION OF JAMES JOYCE'S FINNEGANS WAKE

Donald Theall, Trent University

Donald Theall's "Finnegans Web" includes a "Jump to Page" button that lets you go instantly to any page of Finnegans Wake; a searchable index, which is a link to Jon and Bob Williams's Frequency Analysis Project (item 39); and an agrep search, which searches for approximate as well as exact matches for a string of letters (the letters in "agrep" are based on old commands for Unix computer systems). The site also includes several of Theall's essays on Joyce; links to sections of Jorn Barger's "New Game FAQ" (site 11); and a poem by Edward Newman (fl.1840), "Earwig," taken from a 1977 anthology called Very Bad Poetry.


32A) HOMER'S HOLISTICALHORIFICALHUMONGISTICAL LIST OF JAMES JOYCE WEB SITES

Homer B. James, Carnegie Mellon University

This site, which replaces site # 71 in the printed version of this catalogue, offers an extensive list of links to Joyce Web sites.


33) HYPERTEXT FINNEGANS WAKE DEMO

Brian Tung

This site offers a model of a way in which Finnegans Wake might be presented in hypertext form. A small section (213.1-13) is included. [JB]


34) INDEX: PHILOSOPHEN IM ULYSSES

Sven Grzebeta, Göttingen, Germany

This site lists philosophers' appearances in Ulysses, identified by chapter and line number. [JB]


35) INSTITUT DES TEXTES ET MANUSCRITS MODERNES (ITEM)

Scholars at ITEM, part of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, conduct extensive research into Joyce's manuscripts and those of other writers. Information about Joyce projects is available (in French) at this site.


36) INTERACTIVE FINNEGANS WAKE NOTEBOOK PAGE

Christopher Bjork

This site contains a digitized version of one Finnegans Wake notebook page (Buffalo notebook VI.B.14, p. 94) along with transcriptions. Users can zoom in for closeups of the page and submit their own transcriptions, corrections, or annotations. A few submissions have been received so far.


37) INTERACTIVE LOVE LETTERS

"Interactive Love Letters" lets you send an email love letter with your choice of any of several quotations, including one from the end of "Penelope." At the time of this writing, it was possible to compose a letter and choose a quote but not to send the letter. [JB]


38) JAMES JOYCE CENTRE, DUBLIN

The Joyce Centre's site contains an introduction to the Centre, copies of its newsletter, information about its map of Dublin, a small bookshop, a "What's On" section, and a few links.


39) JAMES JOYCE FREQUENCY ANALYSIS PROJECT (FINNEGANS WAKE AND ULYSSES CONCORDANCES)

Jon and Bob Williams

The Frequency Analysis Project, no longer in existence, was designed to let you locate words or sequences of letters in Ulysses or Finnegans Wake. The title link took you to an introduction to the project. Other URLs led to a Ulysses search with results given as chapter.line number, a Wake search with results given as page.line number, and an indication of the number of times the word or string appears in either text.

This site no longer exists, but it has been taken over and much enlarged at Michael Hanson's site,
Concordance Text Search - Omnicordia V-1.0


40) JAMES JOYCE HOME PAGE

Mark Nunes, Dekalb University

This site contains information about the Joyce discussion lists, online research (which includes "Research Archive," the texts of four essays on Joyce), links to other Joyce pages and other Joyce-related online resources, and information for collectors.


41) JAMES JOYCE RAMBLE

James Joyce Ramble (Martin Hanley), Dedham, Massachusetts

This is the Web site for a 10K road race held each April in Dedham, Massachusetts. It contains information on and application forms for the race as well as links to several other Joyce sites. The nifty 1997 T-shirt, in its analog cotton form, has a design featuring the names of all of Joyce's works on the back.


42) JAMES JOYCE TRIVIA

Noriyuki Toyoda, Japan

"James Joyce Trivia" includes an elaborate set of links to information on Joyce and his works and on subjects related to Joyce; photographs of Dublin and Ireland; a long bibliography of studies of Joyce, with annotations culled from many published sources; a Joyce Quiz; and links to other sites. The link from the title leads to the text in English. It is also available in Japanese.


43) JAMES JOYCE: WWW RESOURCES

Brittney Chenault, Moorhead State University

Brittney Chenault's site contains links to many home pages and other Joycean sites; to works by Joyce on the Web; to research, including Hypermedia Joyce Studies and Chenault's useful annotated bibliography of feminist criticism of Joyce; to book reviews from journals that are part of Johns Hopkins University Press's Project MUSE online journal project; and to the Virtual Irish Pub.


44) THE JOYCE OF SCIENCE: NEW PHYSICS IN FINNEGANS WAKE

Andrzej Duszenko, Northern State University, South Dakota

Andrzej Duszenko's site includes his two essays, "The Relativity Theory in Finnegans Wake" and "Quantum Physics in Finnegans Wake," and also "Joyce on the Web: An Index of Resources."


45) THE JOYCE WARS

Daniel Klyn, Wayne State University

"The Joyce Wars," described by Daniel Klyn as "a resource dedicated to compiling and publishing electronic texts having to do with the work of editing James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses," contains documents related to the controversies over Hans Gabler's and Danis Rose's editions of Ulysses. It includes a few articles about Gabler's edition and several articles, reviews, and other documents relating to Rose's, including Fritz Senn's collation of Rose's edition and Jorn Barger's automated translation (generated by an online translation site) of Senn's German-language review of Rose's edition (available via a link at this site or directly from Eurojoys, site 28). The site also includes a prototype of a digital facsimile of the first edition of Ulysses.


46) PHILLIPS ACADEMY, ENGLISH 543: JAMES JOYCE

Ed Germain, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

Ed Germain's site features course materials for his two-term course at Andover on Joyce. It includes an Ongoing Message Board, where students and anyone else can post questions and observations or respond to previous posts; a Joyce Chat Room; listserv and newsgroup information; and many links to online Joyce and Ulysses resources.


47) POMONA JOYCE PAGE

"Henry Flower"

The clever Pomona site is based on the Evening Telegraph from June 16, 1904. Users can zoom into sections of the full-page image of the newspaper. Altered passages in the Telegraph contain links to explanations and annotations.


47A) ROSENBACH MUSEUM AND LIBRARY

The newly-designed site for the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia contains, among much other information, a link to the museum's most famous possession, the manuscript of Ulysses. First follow the Enter link and then the link on Collections. Click on Ulysses in the second paragraph. The link takes you to a brief paragraph of information about the manuscript, and a sample page from the "Cyclops" episode. Clicking on the image will get you an enlargement


48) SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM, CLASSIC JOYCE, ROME, 13-20 JUNE 1998

R. Brandon Kershner and Zach Heiden, University of Florida

This site contains the academic program and also registration and accommodation information for the 1998 Joyce Symposium.


49) SONARCHY: FINNEGANS WAKE, EXCERPT BY ALBERT WIGGINS

This site features Albert Wiggins explaining and reciting (from memory, the note claims) the "Peaches Browning" passage from Finnegans Wake (65.05-33). The reading is accessible via Real Audio.


50) TAKAHASHI-SAN'S HOME PAGE

Wataru Takahashi, Hiroshima Women's University

Wataru Takahashi's site, still under development, includes photographs of Dublin and links to other sites. The link from the title leads to the text in English. It is also available in Japanese.


51) TANK GIRL: THE ODESSEY [sic]

The Tank Girl site contains information about this comic book's four-part series (June- September 1995) that was based on both The Odyssey and Ulysses. The site includes the covers of the four issues. A link on Ulysses goes to Rob Callahan's "Work in Progress" (site 13), but the URL is an old one that no longer works.


52) TRANSACTIONS: INTERTEXTUALITY AND TRANSLATION

Marco Graziosi, Vignola, Italy

"Transactions" is concerned with the issue of translations of Joyce's works. It includes "The Boarding House" along with Amalia Popper's 1929 translation into Italian, "Petali d'arancio." The two versions can be viewed individually or in two parallel columns on the screen. Also included are five versions of the "Anna Livia Plurabelle" chapter of Finnegans Wake: the final text; the 1928 Crosby Gaige version; the 1930 French translation by Beckett and Péron; the 1931 French translation revised by Joyce, Soupault, and others; and the Italian translation by Joyce and Nino Frank. The site also includes a biography of Joyce, photos of Dublin, and links to other Joyce pages.


53) TRIESTE HOME PAGE

Stefano Papaleo, University of Trieste

The Trieste site contains a shorter, but interactive, version of the book, James Joyce: Itinerari Triestini / Triestine Itineraries, by Renzo S. Crivelli and the "Laboratorio Joyce" (1996). It features a virtual walk through Joyce's Trieste, with text in both English and Italian, and links to some other Joycean sites.


54) ULYSSES: AN OPERA/MUSICAL THEATER ADAPTATION

Roger Rudenstein

Roger Rudenstein's site invites users to download a preview of his musical and audiovisual piece. (The preview is available only in a Macintosh version, but a Windows version is in preparation.) Based on the preview, the work has the potential to use multimedia and hypermedia in an intriguing way to present Ulysses using graphics, animation, music, and user interactivity.


55) ULYSSES FOR DUMMIES

Ulysses for Dummies" offers a series of clever animated cartoons, one for each episode of Joyce's book.


56) ULYSSES READTHROUGH ARCHIVE WEB SITE

Richard Stack, SUNY College at Purchase

An ongoing project took place last year at DU-MOO (item 7) in which people gathered electronically to read Ulysses together. The transcripts of the sessions have been stored at this site.


57) "WE'RE ALL LIVING IN JOYCE'S HEAD"

Denis Pleic, Varazdin, Hungary

This site includes information about the J-Joyce and FWAKE-L Internet lists and a link, lacking a letter in the URL and therefore non-functional, to Hypermedia Joyce Studies.


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