The sheer mass of allusion to popular literature in the writings of James Joyce is daunting. Using theories developed by Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin, R. B. Kershner analyzes how Joyce made use of popular literature in such early works as Stephen Hero, Dubliners, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, and Exiles. Kershner also examines Joyce's use of rhetoric, the relationship between narrator and protagonist, and the interplay of voices, whether personal, literary, or subliterary, in Joyce's writing. In pointing out the prolific allusions in Joyce to newspapers, children's books, popular novels, and even pornography, Kershner shows how each of these contributes to the structures of consciousness of Joyce's various characters, all of whom write and rewrite themselves in terms of the texts they read in their youth. He also investigates the intertextual role of many popular books to which Joyce alludes in his writings and letters, or which he owned -- some well known, others now obscure. Kershner presents Joyce as a writer with a high degrees of social consciousness, whose writings highlight the conflicting ideologies of the Irish bourgeoisie. In exploring the social dimension of Joyce's writing, he calls upon such important contemporary thinkers as Jameston, Althusser, Barthes, and Lacan in addition to Bakhtin. Joyce's literary response to his historical situation was not polemical, Kershner argues, but, in Bakhtin's terms, dialogical: his writings represent an unremitting dialogue with the discordant but powerful voices of his day, many inaudible to us now. Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature places Joyce within the social and intellectual context of his time. Through stylistic, social, and ideological analysis, Kersner gives us a fuller grasp of the the complexity of Joyce's earlier writings.

Illuminates James Joyce's relationship to his literary predecessors in new and important ways

"Gathers together impressive, prominent voices in the field of Joycean studies and popular culture. . . . I was impressed by the elegance with which I was introduced to the idea that Tom Swifties, Marilyn Monroe, and electronic media all have something to offer to the study of Joyce (and vice versa). . . . Delightful new materials. . . . All Joyceans will want to own this volume. . . . Those interested in popular culture per se will also have to see what's happening now in the Joycean arena."--Cheryl Herr, University of Iowa Joyce not only used popular culture, he contributed to it. These essays employ a variety of sophisticated critical techniques to bring out his surprising involvement in the popular culture of his time. Treating all of Joyce's work from Dubliners through Finnegans Wake, they question the conventional idea that popular culture is the inverse of modernist high art, showing instead how popular culture intertwines with modernist (and postmodernist) art. In a general historical introduction, R. B. Kershner the entire question of Joyce and popular culture within the context of Joyce criticism and the cultural studies movement. Contents Introduction, by R. B. Kershner THEORETICAL APPROACHES 1. Theoretical Approaches to Popular Culture, by Derek Attridge 2. A Tale of "Unwashed Joyceans": James Joyce, Popular Culture, and Popular Theory, by David Glover 3. A(dorna) to Z(izek): From the Culture Industry to the Joyce Industry, and Beyond, by Michael Walsh POPULAR SOURCES AND PARADIGMS 4. Should Boys Have Sweethearts?, by Chester G. Anderson 5. Molly Bloom and Lady Hester Stanhope, by Michael H. Begnal 6. "Nothing for a Woman in That": James Lovebirch and Masochistic Fantasy in Ulysses, by Stephen Watt 7. Dr. J. Collins Looks at J. J.: The Invention of a Shaun, by David Hayman THE CONTEXT OF CULTURE 8. Wilde about Joyce, by Zack Bowen 9. The (Tom) Swiftean Comedy of "Scylla and Charybdis," by Thomas Jackson Rice 10. Advertising and Religion in James Joyce's Fiction: The New (Improved!) Testament, by Garry M. Leonard 11. Joyce's Techno-Poetics of Artifice: Machines, Media, Memory, and Modes of Communication in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, by Donald Theall JOYCE IN POPULAR CULTURE 12. Appropriating the Master Appropriator: "The James Joyce Murder" as Feminist Critique, by Helene Meyers 13. James Joyce as Woman: Fionnula Flanagan, Joyce, and Film, by Adrian Peever 14. Marilyn Monroe Reading Ulysses: Goddess or Postcultural Cyborg? by Richard Brown 15. The Joycean Unconscious, or Getting Respect in the Real World, by Vincent J. Cheng R. B. Kershner is professor of English at the University of Florida and an advisory editor for the James Joyce Quarterly. He is the author of Joyce, Bakhtin and Popular Literature: Chronicles of Disorder (1989) and Dylan Thomas: The Poet and His Critics (1977) and the editor of the St. Martin's Press case studies edition of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1992).

The object of this study, first published in 1980, is to dispel the view that James Joyce had no political views. Although not a political novelist like D. H. Lawrence or Joseph Conrad, political issues and discussions are central to Joyce’s major novels. This title links that political content with Joyce’s own views, and examines the evolution of those views and attitudes. A number of unusual and fascinating sources for Joyce’s thought are uncovered. Joyce’s Politics is thus a thorough review of a neglected aspect of Joyce and his writings, and will be of interest to students of literature.

This study explores the relations of T.S. Eliot and James Joyce with certain antecedents, such as Dante, Flaubert and Baudelaire; with contemporaries including Pound and Yeats; and with their readers, in order to illuminate the authors' historic mutual venture in English literature.

DIVDiscusses Ulysses arguing that through the operation of memory, it mimics the working of the human mind and achieves its status as one of the most intellectual achievements of the 20th century./div

The essays gathered in Joyce in Progress are the fruit of the First Annual Graduate Conference in Joyce Studies held at the Università Roma Tre in February 2008, and organized by the Italian James Joyce Foundation. They are a testament to the enduring fascination of Joyce's writings and the ongoing liveliness of debate about the writer and his works and contexts. There is a wide array of genuine research on show here, which looks at Joyce from a variety of angles, focusing on his deeply complex autobiographical fiction through genetic studies, post-colonial studies, eco-criticism and intertextual and multi-modal approaches. This volume offers ground-breaking multi-disciplinary readings and usefully connects Joyce’s work with that of contemporary writers, rivals, followers, and successors.