“Getting Wind of a New Opening”: Joyce in the Digital Age Conference, Columbia University, New York, 1 October 2017

• DOI: 10.1353/jjq.2018.0003
• Publication Date: 2018-06-17T09:00:47Z
• Authors: Caleb Derven
• Keywords: Portrait; Theme (computing); Presentation (obstetrics); Allusion

“Getting Wind of a New Opening”: Joyce in the Digital Age Conference, Columbia University, York, 1 October 2017 Caleb Derven Age,1 single-day conference held at University on 2017, provided bird’s-eye view methodologies and tools digital/computational humanities as applied to Joyce’s novels. The idea for coalesced around Open Editions versions Ulysses A Portrait Artist Young Man initiated by Jonathan Reeves subsequent discussions with Hans Walter Gabler various printer’s errors text used repository.2 project expanded include reading from Gabler’s Critical Synoptic Edition “Ulysses” (CSE) has grown encompass computational analysis both novels.3 presentations projects described during morning session varying degrees computationally assisted readings Joyce. Arguably, many aspects recent Joycean scholarship are [End Page 195] rooted this digital turn, CSE, which would not have been possible without intervention, lively debate Eric Bulson’s “Ulysses Numbers.”4 recurring theme day was possibility technologies reveal patterns or critical insights about texts that necessarily traditional practices. Notably, talks were accompanied artifacts accessible online. Ronan Crowley led off video presentation “Quote Unquote: Quotation, Allusion Unmarked Borrowing Ulysses” highlighted frequent moments where there allusions lifted other works cannot be detected outside use tools. Deploying an example “Scylla Charybdis”—”[h]ow now sirrah” (U 9.192)—Crowley traced phrase its initial appearance notebooks National Library Ireland copy-written draft, contending “material grouping proximity notebook page translates adjacency printed version.” his processes within crossing out colored pencils effectively create sort “textual building block” constructing episodes. form system organizing retrieving raw material novel. Large-scale digitization such Google Books permit identification notebook, ultimately, domain is central providing access research. In “Character Voice Ulysses,”5 character-dialogue novel based TEI project. character-speech presented completely mediated methods. Reeves’s talk considered how distinguishes characters through their speech, delineated anything dialogue dash marked up version using identifying tags. resulting charts utterances episode, variety trends emerge; example, Stephen Dedalus’s speech dominates episodes 2, followed Bloom’s utterances. “Cyclops” episode notable array ancillary own statements. extracted perform statistical stylistic analysis, clustering methods measure similarities declarations text. graph, Bloom occupies similar positions, while Buck Mulligan situated outlier. Similarly, different semantic suggested Citizen most dissimilar terms semantic-character similarity. also topic-modeling, indexes clusters topics characters. Many appear only specific like, Martin Cunningham. 196] Emily Fuhrman reported visualization project, “Visualizing Ulysses—Sirens Graphic Score,” overt references fugal structures “Sirens” episode.6 Again, recurrent day’s regarding role exposing evident more normalized underscored, framed dataset could then formalized linear model...