TY  - GEN
T1  - Useless Joyce : textual functions, cultural appropriations
A1  - Conley, Tim, 1972-
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1004986703
AB  - 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
OP  - 200
CN  - PR6019.O9
SN  - 9781487515478
SN  - 1487515472
SN  - 1487502508
SN  - 9781487502508
KW  - Joyce, James, : 1882-1941 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Joyce, James, : 1882-1941. : Ulysses.
KW  - Joyce, James, : 1882-1941. : Finnegans wake.
KW  - Joyce, James, : 1882-1941
KW  - Finnegans wake (Joyce, James)
KW  - Ulysses (Joyce, James)
KW  - Art and literature.
KW  - Art et littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Art and literature
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -