Joyces Mistakes : Problems of Intention, Irony, and Interpretation.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (205 pages)
- Heritage Series .
- Heritage Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Texts -- I: PORTALS OF DISCOVERY: AN INTRODUCTION -- 1 Re: Cognizing Error -- 2 The true scholastic stink -- II: WRITING ERRORS -- 3 Fault Lines: Representing Modernism's Errors -- 4 Multiple Joyce Questions -- 5 Fickling Intentions (I) -- 6 (Sic) of irony -- Intermittences of sullemn fulminance -- III: READING ERRORS -- 7 Performance Anxieties -- 8 Fickling Intentions (II) -- 9 The allriddle of it -- Erroneous Conclusions -- Appendix: Quashed Quotatoes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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.