{"product_id":"joyces-mistakes-9780802087553","title":"Joyces Mistakes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Joyce has written that ''the man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are the portals of discovery.'' In \u003ci\u003eJoyces Mistakes\u003c\/i\u003e, Tim Conley explores the question of what constitutes an ''error'' in a work of art. Using the works of James Joyce, particularly \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutlining 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405227237719,"sku":"9780802087553","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802087553.jpg?v=1730489193","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/joyces-mistakes-9780802087553","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}