Event overview
James Joyce's Ulysses and the processes of literary criticism
Cockles and '?': James Joyce's Ulysses and the processes of literary criticism
Dr. Sophie Corser (Goldsmiths)
This GLITS presentation draws on a new project, which started as a talk given last August during a ‘Joyce and Animals’ themed workshop at the Zürich James Joyce Foundation. It moves from a potential ‘misreading’ of animal life in the ‘Wandering Rocks’ episode of Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses to a series of questions regarding how we identify and/or attribute significance as literary critics. In this presentation I follow (or caricature) a common mode of Joyce studies: taking a small textual detail, tracing its links and associations, and then extrapolating wildly. I am able to query that mode and its implications via the uncertainty or error of my chosen small textual detail – ‘eleven cockles rolled to view with wonder’. Very much a work in progress, this project could ask key questions about acts of literary criticism – equally, it could just deliver a lot of information about cockles.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Mar 2019 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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