Useless Joyce

Textual Functions, Cultural Appropriations

Tim Conley

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English

University of Toronto Press
25 July 2020

Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: post-colonial literature

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.

By: Tim Conley
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9781487519957
ISBN 10: 1487519958
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 25 July 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tim Conley is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University. His prior work includes Joyces Mistakes, also published by University of Toronto Press.

Reviews for Useless Joyce: Textual Functions, Cultural Appropriations

"""...Conley’s insatiable appetite to read Joyce for his usefulness enriches our understanding of his texts and will provoke further research and inquiry."" -- Eleni Loukopoulou, Independent Scholar * James Joyce Quarterly, vol 55 no 1-3, Spring/Summer '18 * ""Useless Joyce provides an implicit defense of literary pleasure, with the teacher-critic serving as mediator of that pleasure."" -- Mark Wollaeger * James Joyce Literary Supplement, Fall 2018 * ‘Highly recommended.’ -- R.D. Newman * Choice Magazine vol 55:10:2018 *"