Joyces Mistakes

James Joyce has written that 'the man of genius makes no mistakes' his errors are the portals of discovery'. In this work, Tim Conley explores the unsettling question of what constitutes an 'error' in a work of art. using the works of James Joyce, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as central exploratory fields, Conley argues that an 'aesthetic of error' permeates Joyce's literary productions; readers and criticism of Joyce's texts are inevitably affected by a slippery dialectic between the possibility of mistake and the potential for irony.