The culture of Joyce's Ulysses
By: R. Brandon Kershner
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: New directions in Irish and Irish American literature
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780230108684
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Authors and readers; Popular culture in literature; In literature; Newspapers in literature; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Purchased with gifts made in memory of Joan Butler.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : dialogics and popular culture in Joyce's novel; title: Odyssean culture and its discontents; title: Authorial interchanges; title: Riddling the reader to write back; title: Newspapers and periodicals : endless dialogue; title: Tit-bits, answers, and Beaufoy's mysterious postcard; title: The world's strongest man : Joyce or Sandow?; title: Ulysses and the Orient; title: The appearance of Rudy : children's clothing and the history of photography.