Culture of Joyce's Ulysses: (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)

Series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature

Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches.