{"product_id":"useless-joyce-9781487502508","title":"Useless Joyce","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTim Conley's Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Highly recommended.’ -- R.D. Newman * Choice Magazine vol 55:10:2018 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Useless Joyce provides an implicit defense of literary pleasure, with the teacher-critic serving as mediator of that pleasure.\" -- Mark Wollaeger * James Joyce Literary Supplement, Fall 2018 *\u003cbr\u003e\"...Conley’s insatiable appetite to read Joyce for his usefulness enriches our understanding of his texts and will provoke further research and inquiry.\" -- Eleni Loukopoulou, Independent Scholar * James Joyce Quarterly, vol 55 no 1-3, Spring\/Summer '18 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements   Note on Abbreviations   Introduction   Part One: Textual Functions   Chapter 1: Guidance Systems   Chapter 2: Misquoting Joyce   Chapter 3: Limited Editions, Edited Limitations   Chapter 4: Translation, Annotation, Hesitation   Part Two: Cultural Appropriations   Chapter 5: Make a Stump Speech of It   Chapter 6: Win a Dream Date with James Joyce   Chapter 7: The Stephen Dedalus Diet   Conclusion: Means without End   Appendix   Notes   Bibliography Index","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409139278167,"sku":"9781487502508","price":38.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487502508.jpg?v=1730505582","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/useless-joyce-9781487502508","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}