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The reader's Joyce : Ulysses, authorship and the authority of the reader by Sophie Corser is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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## Rethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James Joyce * Offers the first extended exploration of authority in the reception of a canonical modernist author * Re-centres Homer in Ulysses and its reception * Presents an innovative approach to issues of reading by marrying new, close textual analysis of sections of __Ulysses__ with critical and literary reception studies * Suggests a new understanding of literary and critical acts of reading and authorship __The Reader’s Joyce__ engages with core issues of literary studies by rethinking accepted literary, critical, and theoretical notions of the relationships between author, reader, and text. This monograph describes and queries the activity of reading prompted by the intertextuality and narrative of James Joyce’s __Ulysses__ (1922), focusing on in-depth readings of the novel and its interactions with other texts from classical and contemporary literature to criticism, theory, and biography. Central to this approach are new analyses of the now commonly underplayed significance of Homer’s __Odyssey__ to __Ulysses__, and of how authority functions in the developing cri

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Sophie Corser
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Published
2022
Language
EN
ISBN
9781474481465
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Humanities

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