The International James Joyce Foundation’s panel on intellectual property has just updated its Copyright FAQ to reflect the radically changed situation in the US, Europe, and the UK. This is an essential document for anyone who wishes to pursue archival work on Joyce or create new editions or collections of his work. It’s very good to see that the IJJF and this panel have decided to maintain and continue to update this resource.
Alice Coglan’s Wonderland Productions is hosting a walking audio tour of Joyce’s Dubliners, the 2012 selection for The Dublin City Libraries’ One City, One Book Initiative. As the tour moves through Dublin, the walker/listener will hear, on mp3 player, excerpts from Joyce’s short story collection performed by Barry McGovern, Billie Traynor, and others. The tour provides two options: The Half Day’s Adventure lasts four hours or the committed can do the Full Day’s Epic which lasts seven hours. Here is a link with pricing and other details courtesy of the Irish Times.
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Students at Boston College have developed an interactive iPhone app called Joyceways that allows the user to trace the footsteps of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through Dublin. As the user follows Bloom and Stephen’s paths, photographs, annotations, and quotations from Ulysses appear, linking the location with the text. After two years of development, the app is set to launch on June 16th, the 2012 Bloomsday. The project has been funded using Kickstarter, a website that allows projects to raise money by reaching out to donors through the internet. Joyceways was so popular that it exceeded its goal of $9,000. With the app’s launch less than a month away, the developers are now looking to spread the word. Here is a link to their website, and they can be found on Facebook and Twitter.
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Issue 48.1 (Fall 2010) is available for ordering. The issue features articles from Jim Leblanc, April Pelt, Zena Meadowsong, Daniel Shea, Jesse Schotter, and Roy Benjamin and Bill Brockman’s Current JJ Checklist (112). It also includes entertainments from Simon Loekle and Megeen R. Mulholland. The front cover is a photo of Elizabeth Paddock, whose stage name was Marcella the Midget Queen. A reference to Marcella appears in Ulysses, and it is possible that Joyce saw her perform. We are grateful to Victor W. Pitcher, Paddock’s great-nephew, for permission to reproduce the image.
The table of contents with links to articles and abstracts from Project Muse is below.
PERSPECTIVES
“Paradise Found”: The XXII North American James Joyce Conference, San Marino-Pasadena, California, 12-16 June 2011
Michael Timins
“A Learner Like Stephen, a Wanderer like Bloom.“: The 2011 Dublin James Joyce Summer School, 3-9 July 2011
Bozhana Filipova
“Pierced butnot Punctured”: A Report on the 2011 Zurich James Joyce Foundation Workshop, 31 July–6 August 2011
Erika Mihálycsa
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“The Dead” Just Won’t Stay Dead
Jim LeBlanc
Advertising Agency: Print Culture and Female Sexuality in “Nausicaa”
April Pelt
Joyce’s Utopian Machine: The Anti-Tyrannical Mechanics of Ulysses
Zena Meadowsong
“A Rank Outsider”: Gambling and Economic Rivalry in Ulysses
Daniel Shea
Verbivocovisuals: James Joyce and the Problem of Babel
Jesse Schotter
What Era’s O’ering? The Precession of the Equinoxes in Finnegans Wake
Roy Benjamin
CURRENT JJ CHECKLIST (112)
William S. Brockman
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ENTERTAINMENTS
Pomes Two Bits Each!
Simon Loekle
Maria Addresses Mr James Joyce
Megeen R. Mulholland
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NOTES
Marcella the Midget Queen
Tim Conley
Another Side-Street Off “Bleibtreustrasse 34”
Wolfgang Wicht
Who Taught Molly to Say “Yes”?
Richard Corballis
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REVIEWS
Further Adventures of James Joyce, by Colm Herron
Morris Beja
Joyce’s Disciples Disciplined: A Re-Exagmination of the “Exagmination of Work in Progress,” edited by Tim Conley
Valérie Bénéjam
A Passion for Joyce: The Letters of Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen, edited by Edward M. Burns
David Pierce
James Joyce: A Critical Guide, by Lee Spinks
Amanda Sigler
Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce and Cinema, edited by John McCourt
Sonja Jankov
Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, & the Forms of Modern Literature, by Max Saunders
Joseph Kelly
James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet, by John Cage, performed on Friday and Saturday, 11-12 November 2011, at the Sosnoff Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Richard Gerber
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Philadelphia’s Rosenbach Museum and Library has taken on the role of social coordinator in addition to its other Joyce-related activities. They now have a webpage, Bloomsday Central, which serves as a hub for all things related to that most fictional holday—16 June. The site features a history of Bloomsday, lists of regional events, and further links to online resources for those participating in the festivities. The site also welcomes submissions and suggests “Places to See” for those traveling on Bloomsday. Here is a link.
The Irish Times reports today that Danis Rose’s lawsuit against Vincent Deane, Geert Lernout, and Brepolis has been settled out of court. No details about the terms reached by the parties were disclosed.
And to bring this troubling episode to close, let me offer a correction. This blog entry states that Danis Rose’s legal name is Denis O’Hanlon. As the comment from Mr. Rose rather agonizingly states, this was incorrect. I regret the error, while declining his various suggestions for a remedy.
