Useless Joyce

Textual Functions, Cultural Appropriations

Tim Conley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2020
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-1995-7 (ISBN)

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Tim Conley’s Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical, are in fact polymorphous meditations on this question. Examinations of traditional textual functions such as quoting, editing, translating, and annotating texts are set against the ways in which texts may be assigned unexpected but thoroughly practical purposes. Conley’s accessible and witty engagement with the material views the rise of explication and commentary on Joyce’s work as an industry not unlike the rise of self-help publishing. We can therefore read Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as various kinds of guides and uncover new or forgotten “uses” for them. Useless Joyce invites new discussions about the assumptions at work behind our definitions of literature, interpretation, and use.

Tim Conley is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University. His prior work includes Joyces Mistakes, also published by University of Toronto Press.

Acknowledgements

Note on Abbreviations

Introduction

Part One: Textual Functions

Chapter 1: Guidance Systems

Chapter 2: Misquoting Joyce

Chapter 3: Limited Editions, Edited Limitations

Chapter 4: Translation, Annotation, Hesitation

Part Two: Cultural Appropriations

Chapter 5: Make a Stump Speech of It

Chapter 6: Win a Dream Date with James Joyce

Chapter 7: The Stephen Dedalus Diet

Conclusion: Means without End

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.06.2020
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4875-1995-8 / 1487519958
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-1995-7 / 9781487519957
Zustand	Neuware