{"product_id":"the-readers-joyce-ulysses-authorship-and-the-authority-of-the-reader-paperback","title":"The Reader's Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSophie Corser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James Joyce \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Reader's Joyce\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, and of how authority functions in the developing critical reception of \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e since its publication. Through the prisms of \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e and 'the Joyce industry' this monograph provides new perspectives on the author-reader-text triad in the wider field of literary criticism: diving into layered histories of concepts, challenges, and retreats in order to ask how we read now. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKey Features \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOffers the first extended exploration of authority in the reception of a canonical modernist author\u003cbr\u003eRe-centres Homer in \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e and its reception\u003cbr\u003ePresents an innovative approach to issues of reading by marrying new, close textual analysis of sections of \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e with critical, archival, and literary reception studies\u003cbr\u003eSuggests a new understanding of literary and critical acts of reading and authorship \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKeywords \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames Joyce, Homer, theories of reading, authorship, classical reception, metacriticism \u003cbr\u003eSubject: Literature\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRethinks the relationships between author, reader and text in literature and criticism through a study of James Joyce 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. Sophie Corser 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 critical reception of Ulysses since its publication. Through the prisms of Ulysses and 'the Joyce industry' this book provides new perspectives on the author-reader-text triad in the wider field of literary criticism: diving into layered histories of concepts and challenges in order to ask how we read now. Sophie Corser is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of English at University College Cork. Before joining UCC, she was a Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin. Her work focuses on issues of reading in modern and contemporary literature and criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSophie Corser is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of English at University College Cork. Before joining UCC, she was a Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin. 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