Welcome to HJS 13.1 issue which presents seven new essays devoted various aspects of Joyce scholarship, from textual close reading (cf. William Sayers' note on "The Abnihilisation of the Etym" & Jarica Watts' reading of "Number Symbolism and the Occult" in "Clay") via theory (cf. Ellen Scheible's Foucauldian reading of the Wake) to intertext (cf. Victoria Lévêque on Joyce and Woolf vis-a-vis theories of the body) and thematic issues (John Gordon's survey of Joycean "Ways of Getting Things Wrong" in communication). Of particular note are essays concerned with quantitative approaches to reader expectation vis-a-vis Joyce's texts and Joyce's Wake in the light of contemporary (video) game theory, by David Letzler and Andrew Ferguson, respectively. Both essays make heavy use of graphic material whose online presentation here presents the highlight of this issue.

Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the publication of the first HJS issue, the next HJS volume, under the guest editorship of Dr. Onno Kosters, will be devoted to the topic "Joyce and Poetry." Please see the Call for Papers below.

Hypermedially,
David Vichnar
(Editor)
August, 2014

Due to appear in February 2015, the issue wishes to address Joyce’s own forays into the poetical mode as well as the importance of Joyce’s modernist/avant-gardist poetics of “verbivocovisual presentiment” for the poetry of and after his time.Particularly welcome are papers dealing with some of the following topics: Joyce & Pound, William Carlos Williams as (not only) the contributor to Our Exagmination, the post-war Brazilian Noigandres Group, the neo-avantgarde of the 1960s & 70s, the L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E group, conceptual poetry, hypertextual writing from the 90s onward, sound & visual poetry, poetry in the contemporary digital age.

We have a number of contributors already, but if you're interested, please send a proposal for a article to o.r.kosters[at]uu.nl a.s.a.p, but no later than 31 December 2014. The number of papers we can still accept is seven.