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Papers by John Kidd

James Joyce Literary Supplement, 1990

Caesar non supra grammaticos. Grammatici non supra poetas. What parallel courses did Gaskell & Ha... more Caesar non supra grammaticos. Grammatici non supra poetas. What parallel courses did Gaskell & Hart pursue repairing? Commencing united, on the camino real, as advisors to ULYSSES: A Critical and Synoptic Edition (1984, annus mira bilis), they resigned in protest but rejoined in reluctance: they suffered the eclectic artifact to emerge to universal acclaim, their endorsement & cachet on the titlepage in memoriam: they did not disclose their previous recusal or residual objections to the theories & praxes of the Editor, H. W. Gabier: as the faults of the nominal Corrected Text (1986) were communicated globally, they refused publica tion of the inflamed epistulae interrelative the Editor & Estate. Approaching, dispassionate, the notorious text & its succès de scandale, they suddenly tender 483 post mortem repairs to Gabler's Ulysses: the mot juste & obvious corri genda being rarer than the myriad errors correctable. On what did the duumvirate not meditate during their itinerary? They restrict their Repair Kit to the deplorable verbal muta tions, ignoring sine rectificatione Gabler's miscalibrations in

James Joyce Broadsheet, 1988

New York Review of Books, 1988

Joyce's exposure to the new science of psychoanalysis during his Trieste and Zurich years, 1904-1... more Joyce's exposure to the new science of psychoanalysis during his Trieste and Zurich years, 1904-1920, when all but the last book were conceived and executed, has been documented by Richard Ellmann with exhaustive interviews. Paolo Cuzzi, Ottocaro Weiss, Oscar Schwartz and Frank Budgen have related, three or four decades afterwards, Joyce's views on Freud, sex, slips of the tongue, word association, dreams and interpretation. Other chroniclers have ar

James Joyce Quarterly, 1990

Response ever quote me using the word. Nor did I say that the 1984 Synoptic Edition or the 1986 C... more Response ever quote me using the word. Nor did I say that the 1984 Synoptic Edition or the 1986 Corrected Text was obliged to put here what Joyce actually wrote; instead I reveal six emendations Mr. Gabler did make. And from the penultimate paragraph of Mr. Groden's essay: "Kidd's discussion is a lot of sound and fury signify ing very little.., mistaking Gabler's purpose so that arguable differ ences in editorial orientation are confused with errors" (107). The implication is that the Inquiry uses the term "error" to disagree with editorial decisions. PEN IS CHAMP Equally surprising as the attribution to me of words I did not use is Mr. Groden's own frequent use of "error" when he actually means "poor judgment": "The emendation seems erroneous to me.... Gabler erred in spelling "Saltgreen" as one word... but he corrected it.... Kidd acts as if the error was never corrected and is obviously not inquiring into Ulysses: The Corrected Text at this point" (103). (This is a real error because, in the table [page 532] for the passage he is criticizing, the compound separated in the 1986 Corrected Text is in fact reported. Further, I was Mr. Gabler's source for the "cor rection"-the removal of an uncalled-for emendation-as pointed out in the New York Review of Books, August 18,1988.) Even as these comments on "error" go to press, a special issue of Studies in the Novel on the Ulysses controversy has providentially 113

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 1988

James Joyce Literary Supplement, 1990

Caesar non supra grammaticos. Grammatici non supra poetas. What parallel courses did Gaskell & Ha... more Caesar non supra grammaticos. Grammatici non supra poetas. What parallel courses did Gaskell & Hart pursue repairing? Commencing united, on the camino real, as advisors to ULYSSES: A Critical and Synoptic Edition (1984, annus mira bilis), they resigned in protest but rejoined in reluctance: they suffered the eclectic artifact to emerge to universal acclaim, their endorsement & cachet on the titlepage in memoriam: they did not disclose their previous recusal or residual objections to the theories & praxes of the Editor, H. W. Gabier: as the faults of the nominal Corrected Text (1986) were communicated globally, they refused publica tion of the inflamed epistulae interrelative the Editor & Estate. Approaching, dispassionate, the notorious text & its succès de scandale, they suddenly tender 483 post mortem repairs to Gabler's Ulysses: the mot juste & obvious corri genda being rarer than the myriad errors correctable. On what did the duumvirate not meditate during their itinerary? They restrict their Repair Kit to the deplorable verbal muta tions, ignoring sine rectificatione Gabler's miscalibrations in

James Joyce Broadsheet, 1988

New York Review of Books, 1988

Joyce's exposure to the new science of psychoanalysis during his Trieste and Zurich years, 1904-1... more Joyce's exposure to the new science of psychoanalysis during his Trieste and Zurich years, 1904-1920, when all but the last book were conceived and executed, has been documented by Richard Ellmann with exhaustive interviews. Paolo Cuzzi, Ottocaro Weiss, Oscar Schwartz and Frank Budgen have related, three or four decades afterwards, Joyce's views on Freud, sex, slips of the tongue, word association, dreams and interpretation. Other chroniclers have ar

James Joyce Quarterly, 1990

Response ever quote me using the word. Nor did I say that the 1984 Synoptic Edition or the 1986 C... more Response ever quote me using the word. Nor did I say that the 1984 Synoptic Edition or the 1986 Corrected Text was obliged to put here what Joyce actually wrote; instead I reveal six emendations Mr. Gabler did make. And from the penultimate paragraph of Mr. Groden's essay: "Kidd's discussion is a lot of sound and fury signify ing very little.., mistaking Gabler's purpose so that arguable differ ences in editorial orientation are confused with errors" (107). The implication is that the Inquiry uses the term "error" to disagree with editorial decisions. PEN IS CHAMP Equally surprising as the attribution to me of words I did not use is Mr. Groden's own frequent use of "error" when he actually means "poor judgment": "The emendation seems erroneous to me.... Gabler erred in spelling "Saltgreen" as one word... but he corrected it.... Kidd acts as if the error was never corrected and is obviously not inquiring into Ulysses: The Corrected Text at this point" (103). (This is a real error because, in the table [page 532] for the passage he is criticizing, the compound separated in the 1986 Corrected Text is in fact reported. Further, I was Mr. Gabler's source for the "cor rection"-the removal of an uncalled-for emendation-as pointed out in the New York Review of Books, August 18,1988.) Even as these comments on "error" go to press, a special issue of Studies in the Novel on the Ulysses controversy has providentially 113

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 1988