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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... literary theory and then into a spur for artistic creation , thereby turn- ing errors into " portals of discovery , " and loss into gain ( 9.229 ) . But if AE is a creditor who takes no interest , Mulligan is sometimes a usurious friend ...
... literary bor- rowing " debtorship ” or , indeed , to develop any parallel between eco- nomic and literary debts depends upon " syllepsis , " which Michael Riffaterre defines as a pun that consists in understanding a word in " two ...
... literary parent . Stephen's production of interest on Shakespeare implies that all authors are usurers in both senses : they create literary currency that others must borrow and the interest of which accrues to them ; and they generate ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
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