Useless Joyce

Textual Functions, Cultural Appropriations

AvTim Conley

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-07-25
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487519957

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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.

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"...Conley’s insatiable appetite to read Joyce for his usefulness enriches our understanding of his texts and will provoke further research and inquiry."- Eleni Loukopoulou, Independent Scholar (James Joyce Quarterly, vol 55 no 1-3, Spring/Summer '18) "Useless Joyce provides an implicit defense of literary pleasure, with the teacher-critic serving as mediator of that pleasure."- Mark Wollaeger (James Joyce Literary Supplement, Fall 2018) ‘Highly recommended.’- R.D. Newman (Choice Magazine vol 55:10:2018)

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsNote on AbbreviationsIntroductionPart One: Textual FunctionsChapter 1: Guidance SystemsChapter 2: Misquoting JoyceChapter 3: Limited Editions, Edited LimitationsChapter 4: Translation, Annotation, HesitationPart Two: Cultural AppropriationsChapter 5: Make a Stump Speech of ItChapter 6: Win a Dream Date with James JoyceChapter 7: The Stephen Dedalus DietConclusion: Means without EndAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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