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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... distinction between negative and positive labor by noting that he means “ rearing not begetting , " and remarks how profusely we praise a person who saves a life ( someone like Mulligan ) but not someone who “ by exertion and self ...
... distinction between his economic habits and the other Dubliners ' . He refuses to participate in the drinking potlatch for sev- eral reasons . First , he knows that accepting one round means buying others for men who never reciprocate ...
... distinction between exogamy and endogamy through the incest taboo . In preindustrial cultures the exchange of women does not , however , signify commodification in precisely the capitalist sense , because objects in a “ primitive ” gift ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
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