Consuming Joyce

100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland

Consuming Joyce
John McCourt
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10 Feb 2022 UK
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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 Review as 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.
' 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 Toibin, 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 Benejam, Reader, University of Nantes, France. * This book was crying out to be written. * The Irish Times *
John McCourt is Professor of English Literature at the University of Macerata, Italy and Vice-President of the International James Joyce Foundation. He is the author of Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland, The Years of Bloom: Joyce in Trieste 1904-1920 which was translated into Italian, Hungarian, Spanish, and Japanese. He has edited many volumes including Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce and Cinema, James Joyce in Context, and Reading Brendan Behan. He was Peter O' Brien Visiting Scholar at Concordia University in 2019.
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ISBN-13: 9781350205826
Published: 10 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Weight: 450g
Pages: 304

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