Joyces Mistakes
Tim Conley
James Joyce has written that 'the man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are the portals of discovery.' In Joyces Mistakes, Tim Conley explores the question of what constitutes an 'error' in a work of art. Using the works of James Joyce, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, as central exploratory fields, Conley argues that an 'aesthetic of error' permeates Joyce's literary productions; readers and criticism of Joyce's texts are inevitably affected by a slippery dialectic between the possibility of mistake and the potential for irony.
Outlining modernism's struggle with textual authority and completion, Conley locates Joyce among his literary ... Read more
Joyces Mistakes is an absorbing and sophisticated work, a portal of discovery in its own right.
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