Ulysses: 25 Years Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses   a one-day colloquium Friday 6 November 2009

This colloquium marks the 25th anniversary of Hans Walter Gabler's three-volume Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses (Garland, 1984). Heralded for its groundbreaking editorial method, criticized for its radical intervention, Gabler's edition has “survived” praise and controversy, and is today still a standard edition in Joyce studies and an exemplary model for “genetic” editing. The moment seems opportune to revisit the edition's editorial principles, and to re-evaluate its position in textual editing and literary criticism.

The colloquium will also mark the launch of a new seminar for Textual Scholarship at the Institute.

Registration: £20 (£15 Concessions)
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Preliminary Schedule:

11.00-11.30: Introduction (Wim Van Mierlo, Institute of English Studies)

11.30-12.15: J.C.C. Mays (University College Dublin), 'Gabler's Ulysses: Continent Cut Off by Fog'

12.15-1.00: Luca Crispi (University College Dublin), 'The Heterogeneity of the Joycean Textual Archive'

1.00-2.00: Lunch

2.00-2.45: Alistair McCleery (Napier University), 'The "Gabler" Ulysses: Commerce, Copyright and Composition'

2.45-3.15: Coffee break

3.15-4.00: John Lavagnino (King's College London), 'Digital Experiments with the Synoptic Text'

4.00-5.00: Hans Walter Gabler (Munich), 'The Critical and Synoptic Ulysses: an Edition of its Age and for our Time'

(6.00-8.00pm): The colloquium will be followed by a meeting of the “Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar”. Everyone is cordially invited to participate. The chapter the group is reading is “Hades”.

Enquiries and Registration: Jon Millington, Events Officer, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel +44 (0) 207 664 4859; Email jon.millington@sas.ac.uk