附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-274) and index.
1. Joyce the propagandist. Joyce's first readers -- Politics and the literary industry in Ireland -- Irish homestead and the rural middle class -- Joyce's politics -- Class conflict in dubliners -- Socialist alternative -- Joyce the realist -- 2. Egoist's Joyce. Pound's half-thousand -- Eliot's geniuses -- Joyce the egoist -- Modern classic -- 3. Ernst's Joyce. Erotic Joyce -- Second round: a test of Beach's Ulysses -- Morris Ernst and the obscenity laws -- Class conflict -- Third round -- Preparation -- Modern classic and Secretary of the Treasury -- Ulysses in school -- "The salutary forward march" -- 4. Ellmann's Joyce. Stanislaus Joyce v. the Critics -- Mason and Ellmann -- Mason's objections to James Joyce -- Conjecture: theory and practice -- Gay betrayers -- Ellmann's James Joyce -- Canonization and dissent -- Revisionist views of Joyce -- 5. Our Joyce. Criticism, Inc. -- "Scholarly Critic" of Modern Fiction Studies -- Transition: New York's Joyce -- James Joyce Quarterly -- Joyce Industry -- International James Joyce Symposia -- Critical editions -- Conclusion: The trouble with genius.
摘要:In the beginning of his literary career, James Joyce was an Irishman writing to protest the deplorable, volatile conditions of his native country. Today, he is an icon revered as a literary genius within the academic cottage industry known as "Joyce studies." Our Joyce explores his amazing transformation of a literary reputation, offering an unusually frank look into how and for whose benefit literary reputations are constructed. One of only a few studies of literary reputations, Our Joyce will appeal to a broad range of literary critics and to nearly anyone who is interested in biography. Writing from within the Joyce industry that he analyzes, Kelly challenges our current view of James Joyce and the debilitating term 'genius' that we use to canonize writers.
