James Joyce and the Act of Reception: Reading, Ireland, Modernism by John Nash
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Overview: Ever since the publication of Ulysses, critics have tried to envision James Joyce’s audience. Richard Ellmann offered the opinion that Joyce sought readers who thought as he did, and Jacques Derrida asserted that Joyce had anticipated both future audiences and future readings. Some claim Joyce wrote to an ideal audience who would devote their lives to his scholarship, while others claim that Joyce consciously made his work “unreadable.” John Nash argues that Joyce did not imagine an audience, but that he embraced specific criticisms of early works and fictionalized them in subsequent writing.
One of Nash’s basic premises is that the “identification of a readership is… not only a historical question, but also a theoretical, and even textual one.” He argues that “Joyce’s work signifies its modernity in its self-conscious concern for reception.” Joyce, he argues, did not focus on reading and reception as concepts, but on particular historical reactions. Highlighting the imaginary nature of the creation of a reader and an audience, Joyce appropriated these “actual” responses by rewriting them as fictional episodes in later works.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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