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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... gifts and gift exchanges are a “ fe- male property " : that is , gift giving and receiving are female proper- ties ( gender - specifically feminine behavior ) in many cultures and the process is itself feminine because gift exchange ...
... gift , a part of his body which he will give up only on persuasion by a loved person , to whom , indeed , he will make a spontaneous gift of it as a token of affection " ( [ 1916 ] 1959 , 168 ) . Both Joyce and ( as we shall see ) Leo ...
... gift exchanges can theoretically go on forever . A gift truly exists as such only by perishing as property - by being given - and is then reconsti- tuted as new property for the donee . Gift exchange both produces and results from ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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