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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... language " ( Lawrence 1981 , 41 ) involves the narrative consciousness and the consciousness of the characters in exchange : the narrator lends them life in exchange for their linguistic idioms . The language of " Telemachus " thus ...
... language : the world becomes words , and words as signs reveal the world . Musing on birth and death , he imagines that “ The cords of all link back , strandentwining cable of all flesh . . . . Aleph , alpha : nought , nought one ...
... language frustrates attempts to manage its economy : since words create odd and unpredictable juxtapositions that human users cannot control , language seems to be having a pri- vate joke at our expense . But Joyce accepts these ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
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