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This chapter reflects on possible updates to Barry’s Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing in relation to the discovery of new manuscript materials, in particular the Paris and Pola notebook; the restrictions imposed on publication by the James Joyce Estate; probable errors of attribution; and the reconsideration of unpublished English translations of Joyce’s Italian journalism in the James Joyce Archive. Finally, it makes use of new methods of computer-based natural language analysis to offer a definitive statement on the corpus of Joyce’s non-fictional writing, especially in relation to the contested essay “Politics and Cattle Disease.”
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Terence Matthews, “An Emendation to the Joycean Canon: The Last Hurrah for ‘Politics and Cattle Disease,’” in James Joyce Quarterly, 44. 3 (2007), 441–453.
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Hans Walter Gab ler, “Preface”, The James Joyce Archive, Volume 2 (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1978), 653–703, [hereafter JJA 2], xxviii.
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Giorgio Me lchiori, “Two Notes on ‘Nestor,’” in James Joyce Quarterly 22.4 (1985), 414–419.
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Hans Walter Gabler , “James Joyce Interpreneur” in Genetic Joyce Studies: Electronic Journal for the Study of James Joyce’s Works in Progress 4 (2004).
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James Joyce, Oeuvres, Édition de Jacques Aubert (Paris: Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Tome I, 1982; Tome II, 1995).
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James Joyce, Poems and E xiles, edited by J. C. Mays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992); Occasional, Critical, and Political Writings , edited by Kevin Barry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000); Poems and Shorter Writings, edited by Richard Ellm ann and A. Walton Litz (London: Faber & Faber. 1991); The James Joyce Archive, edited by Michael Groden, Hans Walter Ga bler, David Ha yman, A. Walton Litz, Danis Rose (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978, 63 volumes), the translation s from Italian can be found in Volume 2, 653–703.
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Irish Times (Dublin: July 27, 1995).
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Robert Scholes and Richard M. Kain, The Workshop of Daedalus (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1965), see http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?id=JoyceColl.ScholesWorkshop; James Joyce, The Critical Writings, edited by Ellsworth M ason and Richard Ellm ann (New York: Viking, 1957); and OCPW.
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Luca Crispi, “A Commentary on James Joyce’s National Library of Ireland ‘Early Commonplace Book’: 1903–1912” in Genetic Joyce Studies: Electronic Journal for the Study of James Joyce’s Works in Progress 9 (2009). See: http://www.geneticjoycestudies.org/GJS9/GJS9_LCrispi.htm.
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Pages [16v and 17r], “Early Commonplace Book,” http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000356987/HierarchyTree#page/1/mode/1up).
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Frank Callanan, “James Joyce and the United Irishman: Paris 1902–3” in Dublin James Joyce Journal 3 (2010), 51–103; Gerald Long, “William Rooney’s ‘An Irish Rural Library’” in Dublin James Joyce Journal 3 (2010), 104–113.
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I use the word “most” deliberately because, though the NL I materials are now available to be viewed in the UK, this was not originally the case and worldwide access may not be permanent or uniform.
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Richard J. Kelly (1856–1931) can be identified as the author of the pamphlet on Galway as a Transatlantic Port (1903 and 1911) by a copy held in the Archives and Special Collections of the Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland. This copy of the 1903 edition was autographed by Kelly (with an accompanying letter) as a gift to Sir Robert Bond, Premier of the Newfoundland Colony. See Robert Bond Collection, Queen Elizabeth II Library, COLL 237 11.0 Item 11.01.008.
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Matthews, “An Emendation to the Joycean Canon”, 441–453.
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Ga bler, JJA 2, 653–703.
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Ga bler, “Preface”, JJA 2, xxviii.
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Melchio ri, “Two Notes on ‘Nestor,’” 414–419.
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OCPW, Introduction, xii.
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Hans Walter Ga bler, “James Joyce Interpreneur,” http://www.geneticjoycestudies.org/articles/GJS4/GJS4_Gabler.
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Hans Walter Ga bler, “James Joyce Interpreneur,” http://www.geneticjoycestudies.org/articles/GJS4/GJS4_Gabler.
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For circumstantial evidence, see OCPW, 344; Matthews (see note 14 above) rightly notices the omission from all republished versions of the article of the word “today” in the first sentence, a word that makes it almost impossible that Joyce is the author. It is worth adding to Matthews’s account that the first omission of “today” from this article occurred in the Connaught Telegraph, 14 September 1912.
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Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, “The Characteristic Curves of Composition,” Science 9.214, (1887), 237–248.
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Frederick Mosteller and David L. Wallace, Inference and Disputed Authorship: The Federalist (Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1964).
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For example, Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/.
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Efstathios Stamatatos, “A survey of modern authorship attribution methods,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 60.3 (2009), 538–556. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.v60:3.
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This work has been supported by funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 ALIGNED project under grant agreement No 644055.
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J. Diederich, J. Kindermann, E. Leopold, et al. “Authorship Attribution with Support Vector Machines,” Applied Intelligence (2003) 19: 109. doi:10.1023/A:1023824908771.
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Matthews (2007), 451.
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Gabl er, “James Joyce Interpreneur”.
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Barry, K., Feeney, K.C., Mendel-Gleason, G., Božić, B. (2018). Is It Joyce We Are Reading? Non-Fiction, Authorship, and Digital Humanities. In: Ebury, K., Fraser, J. (eds) Joyce’s Non-Fiction Writings. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72242-9_5
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