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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 contemporaries, including Herman Melville, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, and Marcel Proust. He finds that Joyce''s reconfigurations of authorial presence and his error-generating methods problematize all attempts to edit, anthologize, and even quote or cite his texts. Yet Conley goes well beyond catalog

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: 06/06/2003
      ISBN13: 9780802087553, 978-0802087553
      ISBN10: 0802087558
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 contemporaries, including Herman Melville, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, and Marcel Proust. He finds that Joyce''s reconfigurations of authorial presence and his error-generating methods problematize all attempts to edit, anthologize, and even quote or cite his texts. Yet Conley goes well beyond catalog

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