James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Digital Approach to Critical Editions

Abstract

This is an experimental thesis, with the hypothesis that a digital critical edition of Joyce' A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man has a strong voice to offer amid the sea of well-respected literary scholarship and critical editions of this novel. Furthermore, I am arguing - and also demonstrating through the electronically annotated text - that Joyce's work not only lends itself well to the hypertextual medium, but that this digital hypertext enhances the literary work that Joyce is doing in his prose.