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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In this passage , Bloom again transforms a cynical economic cliché — “ every
man his price ” — by taking it literally , so that a body becomes a commodity used
to fertilize new life . The commodification of persons engineered by advertising is
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Molly ' s “ legs " are the eight sentences she draws from her consciousness , so
that eight both represents the shape of her body and inscribes that body as
language . As several writers have noted , Molly ' s sentences repeat in rotation :
the ...
corporal assets " — the body that she must decorate and manipulate to increase
its economic value - still constantly threatened by male appropriation . ? Thus
Molly ' s consuming habits are directed almost entirely at commodities designed
to ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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