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
A. Internet Mailing Lists and Realtime Discussion Groups | B.
Electronic Journals | C.
Omnibus Joyce Web Sites | D.
Specialized Joyce Web Sites | E.
Publications and Publishers | F.
Library Collections | G.
Related Sites | H. General
Literature Sites with Lists of Joyce Links | James
Joyce Quarterly
Flying By the Net, designed to be a regular James Joyce Quarterly column,
hopes to track the enormous amount of Internet activity that Joyce and his works
have inspired. Various World Wide Web sites house many different kinds of information
and also provide links to other sites; primary and secondary documents are deposited
on the Web; a new electronic journal of Joyce scholarship and criticism has been
established; and several Internet discussion lists are devoted to Joyce.
This first installment of the column provides a guide to the resources by listing,
locating, and briefly annotating them. Later installments will elaborate on particular
issues, devote more space to specific sites, or discuss aspects of electronic Joyce
beyond the Internet.
A few preliminary comments:
- Web addresses and contents change regularly. Sites appear and disappear frequently,
as anyone knows who has tried to go to a URL that is cited in an article or book
or who has followed an electronic link. (URL stands for "Universal Resource
Locator"; in other words, a World Wide Web site address. A Web URL usually begins
with the letters and symbols "http://" or "hypertext transfer protocol,"
an announcement that what follows will be an Internet document composed using HTML,
or hypertext markup language, the set of codes that make the site readable by Web
browsers such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer.) Apart from any
errors I have made, the URLs in this article are accurate as of the date of writing,
March 3, 1998.
- You can get to a Web site by cutting-and-pasting the URL from the article to
the "Location" line of Netscape Navigator and then hitting Enter. Or, even
easier, you can double-click on a site name or on its URL (to keep this Web version
consistent with the JJQ version, I have kept the URLs in), and, barring any
glitches, you will be taken directly to the site. You can return to this article
using the "Back" button of the browser or, if that doesn't work, by finding
the article in the list that appears when you select "History" in the "Window"
column of Navigator. If you think that you might eventually want to return to a particular
site, create a bookmark while you are viewing it. In Navigator, click on Bookmark
at the top, and then click on Add Bookmark from the pop-up list. To return to a bookmarked
site, again select Bookmark, and then double-click on the site's name in the pop-up
list. For all these procedures, Microsoft Internet Explorer works basically the same
as Netscape Navigator, but some features have different names. (For instance, Navigator's
"Bookmarks" are Explorer's "Favorites.")
- This catalogue is divided into eight sections:
- Sections C to H are arranged alphabetically. Each site is identified in the first
line by its online title and in the second line by the name and affiliation of the
person who set up and maintains the site, if someone is identified. The
printed James Joyce Quarterly version gives the URL in a third line, but that
line is omitted here. Words that are linked to sites are in colored type, and the
color changes after you've followed a link. (The specific colors will depend on the
settings in your browser preferences.) Hot words are also underlined if your browser
is set up to do this. Double-clicking on any of these hot words will take you to
the site that is named or described.
- I have tried to include everything that has come to my attention, but I
have limited the discussion here to secondary materials about Joyce's works
and, because
of space, have not included references to individual articles on Joyce that
are available electronically. (Several sites contain links to these articles.)
I have tried to
make my comments descriptive and not evaluative. Omissions are unintentional,
but surely there are some, and if you have set up or know about a site
that is not included
here, or if you want to respond to anything mentioned here, please write
to me. Because I move back and forth a lot between London, Ontario, Toronto,
and New York City, the most
reliable way of reaching me is via email (address: mgroden@uwo.ca).
But mail addressed to me at the Department of English; University of Western
Ontario; London, Ontario N6A 3K7; Canada will reach me.
- Additions and corrections that are not in the printed James
Joyce Quarterly version are in red.
Thanks to the many people who answered my various requests for information about
electronic Joyce resources. I have tried to include every piece of information in
one way or another in this first installment of Flying By the Net.
A. Internet Mailing Lists and Realtime Discussion Groups | B.
Electronic Journals | C.
Omnibus Joyce Web Sites | D.
Specialized Joyce Web Sites | E.
Publications and Publishers | F.
Library Collections | G.
Related Sites | H. General
Literature Sites with Lists of Joyce Links | James
Joyce Quarterly
created by Michael Groden, March 3, 1998; redesigned October 27, 1998
email: mgroden@uwo.ca - Web page: http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/