Sophie Corser, "The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader Ed 102"
English | ISBN: 1474481434 | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1474481434 | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Rethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James Joyce
The Reader’s Joyce engages with core issues of literary studies by rethinking accepted literary, critical, and theoretical notions of the relationships between author, reader, and text. This monograph describes and queries the activity of reading prompted by the intertextuality and narrative of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922), focusing on in-depth readings of the novel and its interactions with other texts from classical and contemporary literature to criticism, theory, and biography. Central to this approach are new analyses of the now commonly underplayed significance of Homer’s
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