The development of an undergraduate course that explores concepts of time through music and literature.

This Enduring Questions course would unite literary, philosophical, scientific, and musical works to reflect upon this question: what is time? Though interdisciplinary in scope, the course would be pursued from a musical perspective. Divided into an introduction, three movements (units), and a coda (conclusion), the course would examine works from the late fourteenth century, eighteenth century, and fin-de-si??cle/early twentieth century. Our study will be motivated by these questions: Is time the product of natural laws or human consciousness? How is time measured and experienced? Does technology affect the perception of time, or are there transhistorical modes of perception that resist change? Students would conduct discussions and maintain course blogs, alternating as posters and respondents; guest lecturers would also make posts. Students would present final projects at a Time Fair conducted at multiple venues around campus simultaneously. Grant period: June 2010-Dec 2011.

The development of an undergraduate seminar on conceptions of time in physics, philosophy, fiction, and film.

The development of an undergraduate seminar on conceptions of time in physics, philosophy, fiction, and film. James Weatherall, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, develops a course to consider What is time? from the perspectives of physics, philosophy, fiction, and film. As its title suggests, this course approaches the question of time as a humanistic inquiry, surveying traditional Chinese philosophy, Abrahamic theology, Ancient Greek philosophy, Kantian and modern philosophy, historical and current physics, and the modern novel. The goal of the course is twofold: to engage students in multiple perspectives on the human conception of time, and to highlight for them critical tensions between the representation of time in the physical sciences and in literature and the arts. The course is divided into two parts. The first part investigates the physics and metaphysics of time; students read selections from Plato's Timaeus, Aristotle's Physics, Augustine's Confessions, Newton's Scholium on Time and Space, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and Einstein's Theory of Relativity. In addition, discussion of early Taoist and Zen Buddhist writings on time are paired with the screening of the film Groundhog Day. The second part of the course explores the depiction of time as a subjective experience in fiction, film, and psychology. Readings include James Joyce's Ulysses; excerpts from Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain; Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse; Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49; Vladimir Nabokov's Ada, or Ardor; and Ernst Pöppel's Mindworks. Students write two essays for the course and participate in a weekly online discussion board. The project director interviews students after the first iteration and revises the course based on their feedback.

To write a literary history of the years 1909-1922 focusing upon the changing relationship between the English and American literary traditions. In order to convey a sense of time and place the study will examine a wide variety of literary and social events, emphasizing trends and movements as well as the careers of major authors (Ezra Pound, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and others).

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To study the literary relations of James B. Pinker, an agent who represented many important British and American writers of the early twentieth century, notably Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, H.G. Wells and others. The study would lead to an understanding of the men involved and their world.

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A quantitative analysis of narrative structure, characters, and readership of James Joyce's Ulysses.

The words in James Joyce’s Ulysses have occasioned countless interpretations over the past century, so many, in fact, that one may wonder if there’s really anything left to say. “Ulysses by Numbers” is one attempt to prove that there is, but instead of only reading the words on the page, it also counts them, along with the paragraphs/sentences, characters, first subscribers, and years of composition. My book intervenes forcefully in debates about the value of quantitative methods in the humanities and argues that they should not be restricted only to big-data sets and distant reading practices promising to reveal hidden patterns across massive corpora. To the contrary: these same quantitative methods and tools, which include Geographic Information Systems, social network analysis, text-mining, timelines, and topic modeling, are an incredible opportunity to answer some of the most basic qualitative questions that literary critics have been asking on a smaller scale for centuries.

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A six-week seminar for fifteen college and university faculty on James Joyce's ULYSSES and its multiple contexts, to be held in Dublin, Ireland.

A six-week seminar for college and university teachers focusing on the twentieth-century's pre-eminent novel in English, James Joyce's ULYSSES (1922), exploring the text of the novel in its Dublin, Ireland context, as well as the context of its critical tradition and critical legacies. ULYSSES is absolutely central to the English curriculum, and to the study of the humanities and twentieth-century culture; but the difficulties the novel poses for undergraduate students has meant that it is rarely taken up in anything besides senior seminars. The goal of the seminar will be to equip undergraduate teachers with new approaches to teaching Joyce's masterpiece, emphasizing the power of context (geographic, national, linguistic, literary, artistic, cultural, historical) to bring the book to life for students; and to familiarize researchers with the latest trends in Joyce scholarship, to reinvigorate their own scholarly projects.

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To investigate Joyce's attitude toward the structure of consciousness in Dublin around the turn of the century.

To write a history of Shakespeare and Co., the first American bookshop in Paris, owned by Sylvia Beach. In the 1920s & 1930s writers such as Hemingway, Pound, Macleish, Eliot, Gide and Valery visited the bookshop and lending library which also was the publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses in 192 Sylvia Beach's contribution to 20th cent. Am. literature, to the life of Joyce and to the literary exchange between Prance and Am. has been noted in personal memoirs and literary historices, but no work has ever been devoted to the bookshop itself and its broad influence. Stipend will allow

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A six-week seminar for fifteen school teachers to examine the works of James Joyce.

Using three case studies -- the Walt Whitman Archive; an edition of James Joyce's Ulysses; and an edition of J.W. Goethe's Faust -- the proposed project will experiment with methods of advanced TEI markup, create methods for detailed scholarly queries currently unavailable, and develop user interfaces to best display the variants exposed through diachronic markup. The German partner, the University of Frankfurt, is requesting 139,634€ from DFG.

The project is situated in the Digital Humanities area of literary criticism and textual scholarship, in particular the analysis of literary works in diachronic depth, that is: under perspectives of the genesis of their texts. Here, only the digital medium allows substantial future research and education in literary studies. In this context, the project addresses three major desiderata: 1. testing, improving, and making usable diachronic markup, that is the digital representation of document sources (based on TEI), 2. tools to operate on this data under the light of research requirements, and 3. means to publish and visualize the results of these operations. The project promises to develop and publish such tools and to provide best practices for a wide range of use cases. It does so by bringing together three leading projects in digital literary studies, covering different eras of German, US, and British literature: J.W. Goethe, Walt Whitman, and James Joyce.

A preservation assessment of books, manuscripts, periodicals, maps, and posters in the special collections of McFarlin Library. Collection strengths include archival materials on literary authors, such as James Joyce, V.S. Naipaul, Rebecca West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald; historical resources on Oklahoma and Tulsa; and modernist literature of the early 20th century.

With the proposed Preservation Assistance Grant, the McFarlin Library Special Collections Department will contract with Amigos Library Services to contract with a conservator to conduct a general preservation assessment of the Special Collections and Archives of approximately 163,000 items. This assessment will concentrate on three levels of recommendations: 1) short-term remedial improvements to existing storage space, equipment and conditions; 2) recommendations for improvements on conservation and preservation methods, and 3) recommendations for improving access to fragile materials for the university and the community at large. The project proposed here will focus primarily on the book and manuscript portion of the collections, to ensure an effective assessment and to meet the library's priorities for developing long-term collections care plans.

Incorporating four early 20th-century American and British periodicals, "The Crisis," "The Egoist" (including its predecessors, "The Freewoman" and "The New Freewoman"), "The Little Review," and "Others," into a digital archive of modernist journals.

The Modernist Journals Project is proposing to digitize four culturally-significant magazines from the early 20th century: "The Crisis," "The Egoist" (including its predecessors, "The Freewoman" and "The New Freewoman"), "The Little Review," and "Others." The first of these journals is the official organ for the NAACP, edited by W. E. B. Du Bois; the last three are "little magazines" famous for publishing such authors as James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore. The digital editions we produce, amounting to 14,560 pages, will be the first for all of these rare journals, which will be made available to the public (without charge) on the MJP website (www.modjourn.org). Public access to these digital editions will also be enhanced by our enabling sophisticated searching of the journals (through OCR text conversion, TEI text encoding, and MODS cataloguing) and by our framing each journal with scholarly materials that will foreground its distinctive value.

Production of a series of short films about literature.

PBS Digital Studios is asking for $478,790 from the NEH to support a new, 30-episode season of It’s Lit to be released on YouTube and Facebook, as well as a companion podcast produced by noted PBS Station WGBH Boston and supplemental educational materials created by PBS Learning Media. Launched in June 2018, It’s Lit is a digital series from PBS Digital Studios featuring smart, funny, and shareable video essays about books and why we love to read. PBS Digital Studios has assembled a team of literature scholars, social media-savvy content creators, and PBS staff to help create a series that celebrates readers’ favorite books, authors, and genres in a format that appeals to millennials and Gen Z audiences. Our goal is to make It’s Lit one the most vibrant book communities on YouTube and Facebook, as well as to deepen our viewer’s understanding of iconic works from the literary canon and popular fiction alike.