FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JAMES JOYCE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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it was considered inferior by most authors who read it
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it was banned for obscenity
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it was considered too conventional for publication
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it was praised by the government and churches
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Detailed explanation-1: -Overall, Ulysses provoked amazement and acclaim from professional critics and a torrent of prudish censure from commentators who had clearly neither read it from beginning to end nor sympathised with its all-inclusive vision.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ulysses, they claimed, with its experimentation, parallels with Homer’s Odyssey and playful language, was a highly crafted literary artefact. As an autonomous literary work, it was disconnected from causal effects such as the incitement to sexual stimulation, which was one way of describing the effects of pornography.
Detailed explanation-3: -The novel’s no-holes-barred language and often outrageous wordplay provided more than enough offence, while its coarse treatment of the British royal family and its sacrilegious attitude to the Roman Catholic Church only added to the effrontery.
Detailed explanation-4: -In February 1921, the New York Court of Special Session ruled that Joyce’s work was obscene and fined the editors of The Little Review fifty dollars each. As a result of this decision, Joyce was unable to secure an American publisher for his book, although a pirated version did appear in New York in 1929.