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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... kind requires that one join the fight . Stephen must himself become a usurper in order to consolidate his economic and artistic assets , just as he usurped his father's household role in the second chapter of Portrait . He must wrest ...
... kind of banker of ideas , then he escapes mere chrematism . Stephen's theory dialectically engages both Plato's and Aristotle's no- tions of usury : he takes from Plato his Socratic role as generator of ideas as interest ; from ...
... kind of living dialogue , a place where names and ideologies intersect and create a dynamic interchange , enabling the text describing him to permit a cooperative dialogue of opposite points of view . Bloom's ambivalent economic roles ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
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