Cultural Studies of James Joyce

The first volume to collect essays from the emergent field of cultural studies that specifically address the work of James Joyce, Cultural Studies of James Joyce includes work from both well-established Joyce scholars such as Margot Norris and Cheryl Herr and by such younger writers as Tracey Teets Schwarze and Paul Saint-Amour. Topics range over the whole field of culture, from “Nipper” the Victrola dog to the statuary of Praxitiles, from the Tank Girl comics to studies of Irish schizophrenia, from the history of University College Dublin to the political ferment over choral singing at the turn of the century. The volume should be of interest to Joyceans, to students of literature and culture in the twentieth century, and especially to those interested in the interactions of different cultural levels between the nineteenth century and our own time. An introductory survey by R. Brandon Kershner discusses the rise of cultural studies and places the issue within modern debates in literary theory.

R. Brandon Kershner, Alumni Professor of English at the University of Florida, is the author of Dylan Thomas: The Poet and His Critics (1977), Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature (1989) and The Twentieth-Century Novel: An Introduction (1997). He is the editor of the Bedford Books edition of Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist (1992) and of Joyce and Popular Culture (1996). [He has also published some forty articles and book chapters on modern literature and a similar number of poems and reviews. Brandon Kershner is a Trustee of the International James Joyce Society.]

"…this stimulating collection of essays by distinguished Joyceans…" - in: James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 4 (2006)
"provocative … I do find the collection illuminating, entertaining, agitating, and finally successful." - in: James Joyce Literary Supplememt, Vol. 18, Nr. 2 (Fall 2004)