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......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Joyce Citations......Page 12 One Introduction: Dialogics and Popular Culture in Joyce’s Novel Popular Reading and Popular Fiction;......Page 14 Dialogism and Genre......Page 18 Problems of Allusion......Page 23 Popular Culture and High Modernism......Page 31 Topics and Arguments......Page 35 Two Odyssean Culture and Its Discontents......Page 40 Enlightenment, Myth, and Domination......Page 43 Ulysses and the Modern World......Page 45 Ideas of Mass Culture......Page 49 Three Authorial Interchanges......Page 54 Joyce and Stephen Phillips......Page 55 Phillips’s Ulysses......Page 59 Joyce and Marie Corelli......Page 63 Corelli, Modernism, Feminism......Page 70 The Reader’s Challenge......Page 76 Riddles in Ulysses......Page 81 The Secret Passage......Page 85 Five Newspapers and Periodicals: Endless Dialogue......Page 92 Joyce and Newspapers......Page 93 Newspapers in Ulysses......Page 99 The Historical Context......Page 109 Newspapers and the Structuring of Experience......Page 119 Consuming Newspapers......Page 130 Six Tit-Bits, Answers, and Beaufoy’s Mysterious Postcard......Page 142 The Light Weeklies......Page 143 Tit-Bits......Page 147 Answers......Page 153 Beaufoy and the New Literacy......Page 157 Seven The World’s Strongest Man: Joyce or Sandow?......Page 166 The Career of Eugen Sandow......Page 169 Sandow, Inc.......Page 172 Sandow and the Modern......Page 174 Advertising and the Novel......Page 177 Joyce, Inc.......Page 180 Artist and Ad-Man......Page 184 Eight Ulysses and the Orient......Page 188 The Dream of the Orient......Page 191 Joyce’s Arabian Nights......Page 194 Oriental Erotics......Page 199 The Oriental Irish and Moore’s Lalla Rookh......Page 202 Othering the Self and Others......Page 207 Nine The Appearance of Rudy: Children’s Clothing and the History of Photography......Page 212 Clothing as Social Semiotics in Joyce......Page 213 Children’s Clothing in Ulysses......Page 214 Children’s Outfits......Page 217 Memorial Photography......Page 226 Notes......Page 240 Works Cited......Page 252 Index......Page 264

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. 

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. 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.