{"product_id":"9781350205819","title":"Consuming Joyce : 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eConsuming Joyce\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): John McCourt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Joyce's relationship with his homeland was a complicated and often vexed one. The publication of his masterwork \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e - referred to by \u003ci\u003eThe Quarterly Review \u003c\/i\u003eas an \"Odyssey of the sewer\" - in 1922 was initially met with indifference and hostility within Ireland. This book tells the full story of the reception of Joyce and his best-known book in the country of his birth for the first time; a reception that evolved over the next hundred years, elevating Joyce from a writer reviled to one revered. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart reception study, part social history, this book uses the changing interpretations of \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e to explore the concurrent religious, social and political changes sweeping Ireland. From initially being a threat to the status quo, \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e became a way to market Ireland abroad and a manifesto for a better, more modern, open and tolerant, multi-ethnic country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003e'Consuming Joyce' is a meticulous study of how Joyce's 'Ulysses' has been received in Ireland. John McCourt's writing is judicious, his research painstaking. He has managed to produce a portrait of a society in flux, its response to 'Ulysses' a mirror of its own fears and neuroses and its own gradual move towards openness and inclusion\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eColm Tóibín, Author and Mellon Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“McCourt's remarkable new opus reveals to what extent Joyce's ambivalence towards his native country has been fully reciprocated. The complex and tortuous road towards the canonization of Joyce as Ireland's most famous writer is here narrated with an impressive wealth of information.” —\u003ci\u003eValerie Bénéjam, Reader, University of Nantes, France.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350205819\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40829227106510,"sku":"9781350205819","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_18655689-392c-497d-bd4b-5b2483bf3c31.jpg?v=1643270259","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350205819","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}