Chapter 4 Correcting Joyce: Trial and Error in the Composition of Ulysses
In: James Joyce and Genetic Criticism
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Sam Slote
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Abstract
The first editor of Ulysses was James Joyce. As he was overseeing typescripts and proofs, Joyce had to correct errors and misprisions inflicted upon his text, some of which he had himself made. Of course, this editorial work was (mostly) subsumed within Joyce’s authorial role as he expanded and revised his text towards publication. Indeed, the character of the editorial emendations that Joyce made evolves over the course of Ulysses’s composition, thereby reflecting his own changing conceptions of his book.