{"product_id":"joyces-mistakes-tim-conley-9781442612983","title":"Joyces Mistakes: Problems of Intention, Irony, and Interpretation","description":"\u003cp\u003eJames Joyce has written that 'the man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are the portals of discovery.' In \u003ci\u003eJoyces Mistakes\u003c\/i\u003e, Tim Conley explores the question of what constitutes an 'error' in a work of art. Using the works of James Joyce, particularly \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, as central exploratory fields, Conley argues that an 'aesthetic of error' permeates Joyce's literary productions; readers and criticism of Joyce's texts are inevitably affected by a slippery dialectic between the possibility of mistake and the potential for irony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOutlining modernism's struggle with textual authority and completion, Conley locates Joyce among his literary contemporaries, including Herman Melville, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, and Marcel Proust. He finds that Joyce's reconfigurations of authorial presence and his error-generating methods problematize all attempts to edit, anthologize, and even quote or cite his texts. Yet Conley goes well beyond cataloguing the instances where error is at issue in Joyce's canon; he offers a comprehensive, engaging look at theories of error. He extends his analysis of Joyce to examine the radical reshaping of cognition by 'the textual condition' (McGann), and suggests that the act of reading's propensity for diversity of error makes 'misreadings' valuable critical experiments and the basis of literary theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eJoyces Mistakes\u003c\/i\u003e is an absorbing and sophisticated work, a portal of discovery in its own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Conley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442612983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442612983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Tim Conley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47930790052095,"sku":"9781442612983","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_da7fb453-9647-4c14-9d1a-d609b3dd3edd.jpg?v=1766344288","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/joyces-mistakes-tim-conley-9781442612983","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}