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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.

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Dialogics and Popular Culture in Joyce´s Novel Odyssean Culture and Its Discontents Authorial Interchanges Riddling the Reader to Write Back Newspapers and Periodicals: Endless Dialogue Tit-Bits, Answers, and Beaufoy´s Mysterious Postcard The World´s Strongest Man: Joyce or Sandow? Ulysses and the Orient The Appearance of Rudy: Children´s Clothing and the History of Photography

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"Impressive." - James Joyce Quarterly

"Providing a valuable appraisal of strategic sources shaping Ulysses - whether in derision, revolt, or amplification - the book in particular adds significantly to understanding Joyce´s borrowing, thanks to Kershner´s detailed exploration of Marie Norelli´s The Sorrows of Satan (1895) and Stephen Phillip´s verse drama Ulysses (1902)." - CHOICE

"This is the book I´ve been waiting for! The sequel to Kershner´s brilliant, award-winning study of the dialogic in Dubliners and Portrait, The Culture of Joyce´s Ulysses broadens the terrain to take on modernism(s)´s and modernity´s complex traffic with popular culture. Kershner´s turn to the Frankfurt School is inspired, and his demonstration that Joyce´s readers must contribute not just insights but also actual ´copy´ alters the playing field for Joyce scholars and Joyce followers alike. As always with Kershner´s work, the writing is both lucid and fun, while the breadth of research is stunning." - Cheryl Herr, Professor of English, Cinema and Comparative Literature, The University of Iowa

"I have waited a long time for this book, and it does not disappoint: Kershner has read Ulysses incredibly carefully and has produced a study full of informative, often fascinating, tidbits-with corresponding analyses. His study brings to the fore all sorts of neglected intertexts from the cultures of Joyce´s time - newspapers and periodicals, popular romances and bestselling novels, advertisements, contemporary ideologies and theories, and so on - so as to illuminate fuller, richer readings and understandings of Ulysses.This is also a delightfully readable study." - Vincent Cheng, Shirley Sutton Thomas Professor of English, The University of Utah

"Kershner goes spelunking in the archive, then returns to fill his own Aladdin´s cave. The Culture of Ulysses teems not just with bric-à-brac (as Wyndham Lewis said of Joyce´s book) but also with trouvailles, new enigmas, and glittering aper‡us. This is scholarship less interested in literary monuments than in their secret miscellaneity: an inspired rummaging that unmakes a book you thought you knew." - Paul Saint-Amour, Associate Professor and Graduate Chair of English, University of Pennsylvania

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