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Consuming Joyce
John McCourt
其他書名
100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing
, 2022-01-13
主題
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Books & Reading
Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century
Literary Criticism / General
ISBN
1350205842
9781350205840
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GFZREAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
"This book was crying out to be written."
The Irish Times
"Scandalously readable."
Literary Review
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.