Reading Joyce in and out of the Archive

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© 2002 by the University of Texas Press, P.O. Box 7819, Austin, Texas 78713-7819 1 While this is perhaps a commonplace observation about the role of secondary criticism, the extent to which Joyce’s academic critics have influenced his reception has not been fully documented. The role of literary criticism, for instance, emerges as having been quite significant in the history of Joyce’s European reception, see Lernout and Van Mierlo, eds., The Reception of James Joyce in Europe. Reading Joyce in and out of the Archive