The Culture of Joyces Ulysses [Hardcover]

Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he?broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches.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

Impressive. - James Joyce Quarterly

Providing a valuable appraisal of strategic sources shaping Ulysses - whether in derision, revolt, or amplification - the book in particular adds significantly to understanding Joyce's borrowing, thanks to Kershner's detailed exploration of Marie Norelli's The Sorrows of Satan (1895) and Stephen Phillip's verse drama Ulysses (1902). - CHOICE

This is the book I've been waiting for! The sequel to Kershner's brilliant, award-winning study of the dialogic in Dubliners and Portrait, The Culture of Joyce's Ulysses broadens the terrain to take on modernism(s)'s and modernity's complex traffic with popular culture. Kershner's turn to the Frankfurt School is inspired, and his demonstration that Joyce's readers must contribute not just insights but also actual 'copy' alters the playing field for Joyce scholars and Joyce followers alike. As always with Kershner's work, the writing is both lucid and fun, while the breadth of research is stunning. - Cheryl Herr, Professor of English, Cinema and Comparative Literature, The University of Iowa

I have waited a long time for this book, and it does not disappoint: Kershner has read Ulysses incredibly carefully and has prlc)