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hi steve, thank you. this was the type of answer i was looking for. the wikipedia article would lead one to believe that the gabler edition was controversial, with over 2000 instances of errant "corrections," and possibly motivated by securing a new copyright. did your professor touch on this? i saw that there are different approaches to corrections, and the one gabler used included multiple source materials, rather than the "original." (that original being problematic in its own right.) i would be interested to hear, if she addressed this, why she felt that this approach was better than the previous ones. thanks again.
It's been a few years since I had that class. But she just talked about how this edition is the closest to what Joyce had intended for the book. She's much more reliable than Wikipedia. I'm sorry I can't give any deeper reasons. All I can say is that a Joyce scholar recommends this edition, and so that definitely means something. I hope you enjoy the book. I did.
This was also a 400 level English class. It is also the best class I took throughout college. The professor is brilliant. I'd take her word on it for sure.
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hi steve, thank you. this was the type of answer i was looking for. the wikipedia article would lead one to believe that the gabler edition was controversial, with over 2000 instances of errant "corrections," and possibly motivated by securing a new copyright. did your professor touch on this? i saw that there are different approaches to corrections, and the one gabler used included multiple source materials, rather than the "original." (that original being problematic in its own right.) i would be interested to hear, if she addressed this, why she felt that this approach was better than the previous ones. thanks again.
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It's been a few years since I had that class. But she just talked about how this edition is the closest to what Joyce had intended for the book. She's much more reliable than Wikipedia. I'm sorry I can't give any deeper reasons. All I can say is that a Joyce scholar recommends this edition, and so that definitely means something. I hope you enjoy the book. I did.
This was also a 400 level English class. It is also the best class I took throughout college. The professor is brilliant. I'd take her word on it for sure.
