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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... death . His philosophy springs from a recognition of the propinquity of birth and death , of origins and ends . Both passages are managed by doctors and women ( see 6.14-18 ; 14.392-93 ) , who are able to move " From one extreme to the ...
... death . Moreover , 11:00 A.M. is the hour of Dignam's funeral and the novel's hour of death . But it is also the hour of birth : “ Oxen of the Sun , ” during which baby Purefoy is born , ends at around 11:00 P.M. Origins and ends ...
... death into the moment of his concep- tion , the same sign may signify both death and birth . Like Odysseus visiting the underworld , Bloom encounters the spirits of numerous dead heroes : Smith O'Brien , O'Connell , Parnell . But ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
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