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Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland
James Joyce's relationship with his homeland was a complicated and often vexed one. The publication of his masterwork Ulysses - referred to by The Quarterly Reviewas an "Odyssey of the sewer" - in 1922 was initially met with indifference and hostility within Ireland. This book tells the full story of the reception of Joyce and his best-known book in the country of his birth for the first time; a reception that evolved over the next hundred years, elevating Joyce from a writer reviled to one revered.
Part reception study, part social history, this book uses the changing interpretations of Ulysses to explore the concurrent religious, social and political changes sweeping Ireland. From initially being a threat to the status quo, Ulysses became a way to market Ireland abroad and a manifesto for a better, more modern, open and tolerant, multi-ethnic country.
Part reception study, part social history, this book uses the changing interpretations of Ulysses to explore the concurrent religious, social and political changes sweeping Ireland. From initially being a threat to the status quo, Ulysses became a way to market Ireland abroad and a manifesto for a better, more modern, open and tolerant, multi-ethnic country.
Book Details
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Publish Date: Feb 10th, 2022
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.69in - 1.31lb
- EAN: 9781350205819
- Categories: • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• Books & Reading• Modern - 20th Century
About the Author
McCourt, John: - John McCourt is Professor of English Literature, Head of the Department of the Humanities at the University of Macerata, Italy and President of the International James Joyce Foundation. He is the author and editor of numerous books on Joyce and on Irish literature more in general.
Praise for this book
"This book was crying out to be written." --The Irish Times
"Scandalously readable." --Literary Review "'Consuming Joyce' is a meticulous study of how Joyce's 'Ulysses' has been received in Ireland. John McCourt's writing is judicious, his research painstaking. He has managed to produce a portrait of a society in flux, its response to 'Ulysses' a mirror of its own fears and neuroses and its own gradual move towards openness and inclusion." --Colm Tóibín, Author and Mellon Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA. "McCourt's remarkable new opus reveals to what extent Joyce's ambivalence towards his native country has been fully reciprocated. The complex and tortuous road towards the canonization of Joyce as Ireland's most famous writer is here narrated with an impressive wealth of information." --Valerie Bénéjam, Reader, University of Nantes, France.