Article: 'As good as any bloody play in the Queen's Royal Theatre': performing the nation in the 'Cyclops' episode of Ulysses.(James Joyce)(Critical essay)

In their introduction to a seminal collection of essays, Semicolonial Joyce, Marjorie Howes and Derek Attridge observe that 'The rise of postcolonial perspectives in Irish studies has generated a good deal of controversy, nowhere more so than in Joyce scholarship; in a 1996 review, Colm Toibin quipped that "the battle for the soul of Joyce has become almost as intense in recent years as the battle for the GPO in Easter Week."' (1) In the course of this intense and unresolved battle, commenced in the early 1990s, the unified portrait of Joyce as an apolitical modernist and cosmopolitan aesthete has become splintered into multiple, often conflicting portraits. Thus, Joyce ...

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