Ulysses Forty Years

Georgina Nugent is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vienna. She is the author of The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Company/ Compagnie (Bloomsbury Academic/UPA, 2021) and Beckett and Stein (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and the editor of a special issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies that focuses on ‘Beckett’s Women Contemporaries’ (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Her research focuses on modernism, with a particular interest in Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce. She has published essays in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujhourd’hui, Journal of Beckett Studies, James Joyce Quarterly, and The Southern Review, among others. Her current book project is a comparative study of James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. Like the eponymous Joyce scholar of the novel The Death of a Joyce Scholar, Sam Slote is a Professor at Trinity College Dublin and lives in the Liberties in Dublin. He is the author of Annotations to James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ (Oxford, 2022), Joyce’s Nietzschean Ethics (Palgrave, 2013), and is the co-editor, with Luca Crispi, of How Joyce Wrote ‘Finnegans Wake’ (Wisconsin, 2007). In addition to Joyce and Beckett, he has written on Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Raymond Queneau, Antonin Artaud, Dante, Mallarmé, and Elvis.

• Acknowledgements List of Tables & Illustrations List of Abbreviations Note on Citation PracticeIntroduction: Ulysses at Forty Georgina Nugent & Sam SloteSection 1: Editing and Editorial Theory 1. A Question of Authority: The Critical and Synoptic Edition of Ulysses and Theories of Scholarly Editing Wim Van Mierlo 2. Work, Text, Book, Author: Divergences and Intersections Paola PugliattiSection 2: Reading Ulysses; Reading the UCSEReading the Synoptic Display and the Reading Text Together: Towards an Understanding of the Modernist Self-Reflexivity of Ulysses Shinjini ChattopadhyayIf he had smiled why would he have smiled?: “Ithaca,” Lists and the Text-in-Progress Matthew CreasyA Portrait of the Editor as Arranger Sam SloteSection 3: Beyond UlyssesReading Ulysses onto Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The Impact of the Gabler Synoptic and Critical Editions on Editions of Joyce’s Earlier Texts Elizabeth M. BonapfelThis translation and the other translation: the impact of the Gabler text on translations of Ulysses Jolanta WawrzyckaCopyright and the Gabler Ulysses Robert SpooCoda 9. Ulysses 1984: To Edit and Read in Flow of Composition Hans Walter GablerAppendix: Hans Walter Gabler: “Love, yes. Word known to all men.”NotesIndex