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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... currency of language . By manipulating tropic exchanges - puns , homonyms , synchronicities , mirrored characters - that expose the distortions and eccentricities in both economies , the author may restore that reciprocity , so that the ...
... currency . The two economies are identified as Stephen reciprocates for his reception of borrowed words by offering to spend both financial and verbal currency . That currency is his " parable . " It is much more a product of social ...
... currency made in opposition to legitimate banking and governmental institutions . Counterfeits , then , are counternarratives to the authorized fictions of genuine currency ; while pretending to replicate the legitimate power of ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
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