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Tim Conley's Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical, are in fact polymorphous meditations on this question. Examinations of traditional textual functions such as quoting, editing, translating, and annotating texts are set against the ways in which texts may be assigned unexpected but thoroughly practical purposes. Conley's accessible and witty engagement with the material views the rise of explication and commentary on Joyce's work as an industry not unlike the rise of self-help publishing. We can therefore read Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as various kinds of guides and uncover new or forgotten "uses" for them. Useless Joyce invites new discussions about the assumptions at work behind our definitions of literature, interpretation, and use.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Textual Functions
Chapter 1: Guidance Systems
Chapter 2: Misquoting Joyce
Chapter 3: Limited Editions, Edited Limitations
Chapter 4: Translation, Annotation, Hesitation
Part Two: Cultural Appropriations
Chapter 5: Make a Stump Speech of It
Chapter 6: Win a Dream Date with James Joyce
Chapter 7: The Stephen Dedalus Diet
Conclusion: Means without End
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
