The Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends MeetSyracuse University Press, 1995 - 472 pages This 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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... present . Richard Ellmann comments that " the evidence of [ Stephen's ] wakefulness [ in regard to history ] is his debts , which testify to his attempt to live in the present , unconscionably it may be , but desper- ately . Better ...
... present . Like literary realism too , capitalist realism masks the history of its production , presumes a transparent semiotic relationship between signifier and signified that collapses upon close examination , and presents an ...
... present from some other woman , rather than his own purchase ( 18.125 ) . Gerty MacDow- ell fantasizes about flowery gifts — a “ ruched teacosy with embroi- dered floral design for [ Father Conroy ] as a present " ( 13.460-62 ) — and ...
Contents
Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
Copyright | |
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