TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kelly,Joseph
TI  - Our Joyce: From Outcast to Icon 
T2  - Literary Modernism
SN  - 9780292799660
AV  - PR6019.O9Z6696 1998 
U1  - 823.912 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; One. Joyce the Propagandist --; Two. The Egoist's Joyce --; Three. Ernst's Joyce --; Four. Ellmann's Joyce --; Five. Our Joyce --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - James Joyce began his literary career as an Irishman writing to protest the deplorable conditions of his native country. Today, he is an icon in a field known as "Joyce studies." Our Joyce explores this amazing transformation of a literary reputation, offering a frank look into how and for whose benefit literary reputations are constructed. Joseph Kelly looks at five defining moments in Joyce's reputation. Before 1914, when Joyce was most in control of his own reputation, he considered himself an Irish writer speaking to the Dublin middle classes. When T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound began promoting Joyce in 1914, however, they initiated a cult of genius that transformed Joyce into a prototype of the "egoist," a writer talking only to other writers. This view served the purposes of Morris Ernst in the 1930s, when he defended Ulysses against obscenity charges by arguing that geniuses were incapable of obscenity and that they wrote only for elite readers. That view of Joyce solidified in Richard Ellmann's award-winning 1950s biography, which portrayed Joyce as a self-centered genius who cared little for his readers and less for the world at war around him. The biography, in turn, led to Joyce's canonization by the academy, where a "Joyce industry" now flourishes within English departments
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/743311
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292799660
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292799660/original
ER  -