
Joyce's Audiences
John Nash(Editor)
Rodopi (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2002
Book
Hardback
231 pages
978-90-420-1113-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents for the first time a collective examination of the issue of audience in relation to Joyce's work and the cultural moments of its reception. While many of the essays gathered in this volume are concerned with particular readers and readings of Joyce's work, they all, individually and generally, gesture at something broader than a specific act of reception. Joyce's Audiences is an important narrative of the cultural receptions of Joyce but it is also an exploration of the author's own fascination with audiences, reflecting a wider concern with reading and interpretation in general. Twelve essays by an international cast of Joyce critics deal with: the censorship and promotion of Ulysses; the 'plain reader' in modernism; Richard Ellmann's influence on Joyce's reputation; the implied audiences of Stephen Hero and Portrait; Borges's relation with Joyce; the study of Joyce in Taiwan; the promotion of Joyce in the U.S.; the complaint that there is insufficient time to read Joyce's work; the revisions to "Work in Progress" that respond to specific reviews; strategies of critical interpretation; Joyce and feminism; and the 'belated' readings of post-structuralism.
Reviews / Votes
"...Joyce's Audiences consists of well-written and provocative essays..." in: The European Legacy, Vol. 10, 2005More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
528 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-1113-7 (9789042011137)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Bibliographical Note. John NASH: Introduction. Barbara LECKIE: "Short Cuts to Culture": Censorship and Modernism; or, Learning to Read Ulysses. Jean-Michel RABATE: Modernism and "the Plain Reader's Rights": Duff-Riding-Graves Re-Reading Joyce. John McCOURT: Reading Ellmann Reading Joyce. Roy GOTTFRIED: The Audiences for Joyce's Autobiographies. Beatriz VEGH: A Meeting in the Western Canon: Borges's Conversation with Joyce. Yu-chen LIN: Joyce on the Eastern Edge: Globalization, Localization and Joyce Studies in Taiwan. Craig MONK: "America is Frankly Contemptuous": James Joyce's Work in Progress for the United States. John NASH: "A Constant Labour": Work in Progress and the Specialization of Reading. Ingeborg LANDUYT: Joyce Reading Himself and Others. Brian G. CARAHER: Protocols of Reading Ulysses. Catherine DRISCOLL: Feminist Audiences for Joyce. Joe BROOKER: The Fidelity of Theory: James Joyce and the Rhetoric of Belatedness. Notes on Contributors.