Abstract

A Reader's Edition, Danis Rose declares that "the overriding criterion applied in creating this edition has been to maximize the pleasure of the reader" (vi).He invokes the reader's pleasure more than once in the front matter, pointing to its maximization through textual editing as a labor that he undertook on behalf of the "reader," an entity that he is at pains to distinguish from the "scholar" (v).Scholars, Rose suggests, already have their Ulysses.Hans Walter Gabler's critically edited text, which appeared in 1984, met with acclaim early on but soon came under attack for its unfamiliar theoretical rationale and its alleged errors of execution.The furore led to the reissue of the corrupt 1961 Random House text, which Gabler's edition was expected to replace.In 1992, W. W. Norton