The Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends MeetThis original and wide-ranging study explores the "economies" of Ulysses using a number of different critical and theoretical methods. Not only do the economic circumstances of the characters Some of the subjects and topics covered include Joyce's own "spendthrift" background, gift exchanges and reciprocity as a fundamental means of reader/author relationship in the novel, money and language, Bloom as an "economic man," the "narrative economy" of "Wandering Rocks," the relationship between commerce and eroticism, the function of sacrifice in the creation of value, counterfeiting, forgery, and other crimes of writing, and a demonstration of how the |
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... structures more varied , an evolution that culmi- nates in the passage in which Mrs. Sinico passionately presses ... structural economies of Portrait ( its many lacunae and excisions ) . These compositional habits contrast with Joyce's ...
... structure . He detects the commercial aims just beneath the pious surface . " Wonderful organisation really , goes like clockwork . ... Salvation Army blatant imitation . Reformed prostitute will ad- dress the meeting . How I found the ...
... structure for the epi- sode ( see Osteen 1991 , 77–78 ) . Like a chessmaster planning strategic moves , Joyce ... structures , just as they are controlled by the Joycean chessmaster who narrates and arranges the episode . Besides the ...
Contents
Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
Copyright | |
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