Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernisms relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershners corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches.
Dialogics and Popular Culture in Joyces Novel Odyssean Culture and Its Discontents Authorial Interchanges Riddling the Reader to Write Back Newspapers and Periodicals: Endless Dialogue Tit-Bits, Answers, and Beaufoys Mysterious Postcard The Worlds Strongest Man: Joyce or Sandow? Ulysses and the Orient The Appearance of Rudy: Childrens Clothing and the History of Photography