The Culture of Joyce's Ulysses

ReadingUlysseswith an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, R. Brandon Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporaneous popular culture and literature. Concrete examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he insists upon broadening the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches.

R. Brandon Kershner is Alumni Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of Dylan Thomas: The Poet and His Critics, Joyce, Bakhtin, and popular Literature; and The Twentieth-Century Novel: An Introduction. He is a member of the Board of Advisory Editors of the James Joyce Quarterly, and was recently re-elected to the Board of Trustees of the International Joyce Foundation.

Introduction: Dialogics and Popular Culture in Joyce’s Novel * Odyssean Culture and Its Discontents * Authorial Interchanges * Riddling the Reader to Write Back * Newspapers and Periodicals: Endless Dialogue * Tit-Bits, Answers, and Beaufoy’s Mysterious Postcard * The World’s Strongest Man: Joyce or Sandow? * Ulysses and the Orient * The Appearance of Rudy: Children’s Clothing and the History of Photography

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The Culture of Joyce's Ulysses

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