num_pages: 232
description: "Gathers together impressive, prominent voices in the field of Joycean studies and popular culture. . . . I was impressed by the elegance with which I was introduced to the idea that Tom Swifties, Marilyn Monroe, and electronic media all have something to offer to the study of Joyce (and vice versa). . . . Delightful new materials. . . . All Joyceans will want to own this volume. . . . Those interested in popular culture per se will also have to see what's happening now in the Joycean arena."--Cheryl Herr, University of IowaJoyce not only used popular culture, he contributed to it. These essays employ a variety of sophisticated critical techniques to bring out his surprising involvement in the popular culture of his time. Treating all of Joyce's work from Dubliners through Finnegans Wake, they question the conventional idea that popular culture is the inverse of modernist high art, showing instead how popular culture intertwines with modernist (and postmodernist) art. In a general historical introduction, R. B. Kershner the entire question of Joyce and popular culture within the context of Joyce criticism and the cultural studies movement.ContentsIntroduction, by R. B. KershnerTHEORETICAL APPROACHES1. Theoretical Approaches to Popular Culture, by Derek Attridge2. A Tale of "Unwashed Joyceans": James Joyce, Popular Culture, and Popular Theory, by David Glover3. A(dorna) to Z(izek): From the Culture Industry to the Joyce Industry, and Beyond, by Michael WalshPOPULAR SOURCES AND PARADIGMS4. Should Boys Have Sweethearts?, by Chester G. Anderson5. Molly Bloom and Lady Hester Stanhope, by Michael H. Begnal6. "Nothing for a Woman in That": James Lovebirch and Masochistic Fantasy in Ulysses, by Stephen Watt7. Dr. J. Collins Looks at J. The Invention of a Shaun, by David HaymanTHE CONTEXT OF CULTURE8. Wilde about Joyce, by Zack Bowen9. The (Tom) Swiftean Comedy of "Scylla and Charybdis," by Thomas Jackson Rice10. Advertising and Religion in James Joyce's The New (Improved!) Testament, by Garry M. Leonard11. Joyce's Techno-Poetics of Machines, Media, Memory, and Modes of Communication in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, by Donald TheallJOYCE IN POPULAR CULTURE12. Appropriating the Master "The James Joyce Murder" as Feminist Critique, by Helene Meyers13. James Joyce as Fionnula Flanagan, Joyce, and Film, by Adrian Peever14. Marilyn Monroe Reading Goddess or Postcultural Cyborg? by Richard Brown15. The Joycean Unconscious, or Getting Respect in the Real World, by Vincent J. ChengR. B. Kershner is professor of English at the University of Florida and an advisory editor for the James Joyce Quarterly. He is the author of Joyce, Bakhtin and Popular Chronicles of Disorder (1989) and Dylan The Poet and His Critics (1977) and the editor of the St. Martin's Press case studies edition of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1992).
language: English
title: Joyce and Popular Culture
titlecomplete: Joyce and Popular Culture (Florida James Joyce)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: University Press of Florida