Who Reads Ulysses? : The Common Reader and the Rhetoric of the Joyce Wars

ISBN-13: 9780415942065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 222 str.

Julie Sloan Brannon; Julie Sloan Brannon; S. Brannon Julie

Opis

A book that is at once obscure and brilliant, Ulysses was declared the most important book of the 20th century. It has also been the center of controversy off and on for over 75 years, most recently as the object of what was dubbed 'The Joyce Wars' in the late 1980s: the controversy over Hans Walter Gabler's Ulysses: The Corrected Text . The author examines the Joyce Wars as a fascinating nexus of the conflicts between scholars and ordinary readers, and one that illuminates the existence of Ulysses - and by extension, Joyce - as an example of of Lyotard's differend, an icon that exists simultaneously in two separate yet contradictory discourses, each of which silences the other. The academic Joyce is radically different from the Public Joyce, and yet neither could exist without the other. Tangled up in this conflicted space are the interests of the common reader, a nebulously defined entity if there ever was one. Those interests were ostensibly addressed by Danis Rose with his Ulysses: A Reader's Edition in 1997, which sparked yet another episode in the Joyce Wars.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 JOYCE'S CANONIZATION, in which THE PROFESSORS ARE KEPT BUSY; Chapter 2 JOYCE.COM, in which IMAGE IS EVERYTHING; Chapter 3 EDITIONS IN PROGRESS, or, PREVENTING ACCIDENTALS IN THE TOME; Chapter 4 TALES FROM THE FRONT, in which THE AMERICAN SHOOTS THE PRUSSIAN GENERAL; Chapter 5 SELECTED PAPERS OF THE JOYCE WARS, in which A MIDDEN HEAP BECOMES A PILE OF LETTERS; Chapter 6 WHOSE BOOK IS IT, ANYWAY? or, PRUNING THE BLOOM; Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;

O autorze

Julie Sloan Brannon