The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism: Reading Against the Grain

By Kevin J.H. Dettmar

Book Overview

For nearly three quarters of a century, the modernist way of reading has been the only way of reading James Joyce--useful, yes, and powerful but, like all frameworks, limited. This book takes a leap... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029915064X
• ISBN13: 9780299150648
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Treatment

The previous reviewer who takes exception to this book both (a) misreads Joyce (relying on Stephen D. in Portrait as encompassing the attitudes of a mature Joyce--remember the disclaimer "as a Young Man") and (b) misreads postmodernism completely. This book, a rare lenghty treatment of this subject in Joyce studies provides fantastically innovative work for Dubliners ("epiphony" shall certainly live on in Joyce scholarship) and offers compelling arguments for a new celebration of Ulysses and Dubliners in a postmodern/poststructural vein (where others tend to be too heavily focused on Finnegans Wake).

Wow!

Kevin Dettmar is a genius! I have never enjoyed a book so thoroughly as The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism: Reading Against the Grain. I have already read it six times, I simply can't put it down! I am buying a copy for everyone at work for Christmas, it makes a great gift, so try it. I think that it should be required for every person in this world to read this wonderful, amazing book.