The Culture of Joyce’s Ulysses (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)

Reading James Joyce’s Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, R. Brandon Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to popular culture and literature. Addressing newspapers and “light weeklies” in Ireland, this book argues that Ulysses reflects their formal innovations and relationship to the reader. Ultimately, Kershner offers a corrective to formal approaches to popular literary genres, broadening the spectrum of methodologies to incorporate social and political dimensions. Coverpage Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Joyce Citations One Introduction: Dialogics and Popular Culture in Joyce’s Novel Popular Reading and Popular Fiction; Dialogism and Genre Problems of Allusion Popular Culture and High Modernism Topics and Arguments Two Odyssean Culture and Its Discontents Enlightenment, Myth, and Domination Ulysses and the Modern World Ideas of Mass Culture Three Authorial Interchanges Joyce and Stephen Phillips Phillips’s Ulysses Joyce and Marie Corelli Corelli, Modernism, Feminism Four Riddling the Reader to Write Back The Reader’s Challenge Riddles in Ulysses The Secret Passage Five Newspapers and Periodicals: Endless Dialogue Joyce and Newspapers Newspapers in Ulysses The Historical Context Newspapers and the Structuring of Experience Consuming Newspapers Six Tit-Bits, Answers, and Beaufoy’s Mysterious Postcard The Light Weeklies Tit-Bits Answers Beaufoy and the New Literacy Seven The World’s Strongest Man: Joyce or Sandow? The Career of Eugen Sandow Sandow, Inc. Sandow and the Modern Advertising and the Novel Joyce, Inc. Artist and Ad-Man Eight Ulysses and the Orient The Dream of the Orient Joyce’s Arabian Nights Oriental Erotics The Oriental Irish and Moore’s Lalla Rookh Othering the Self and Others Nine The Appearance of Rudy: Children’s Clothing and the History of Photography Clothing as Social Semiotics in Joyce Children’s Clothing in Ulysses Children’s Outfits Memorial Photography Notes Works Cited Index

Reading James Joyce’s Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, R. Brandon Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to popular culture and literature. Addressing newspapers and 'light weeklies' in Ireland, this book argues that Ulysses reflects their formal innovations and relationship to the reader. Ultimately, Kershner offers a corrective to formal approaches to popular literary genres, broadening the spectrum of methodologies to incorporate social and political dimensions. 

Reading Ulysses with 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 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.