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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... loss . Joyce's early economy of mean- ness implies a similar perception : if writing is a fecal loss , then it should be given sparingly . His later textual economy of extravagant expenditure testifies to a shift in this valence ; if ...
... loss of honor . The potlatch constructs the boundaries of the social group and solidifies its hierarchies : those who give or destroy wealth are included , and those who do not are cast out ; those who cannot reciprocate by giving back ...
... loss and gain into a third element that combines the values of giving and receiving . Bloom's sacrifices thus empty ... losses entail . Stephen must lose in order to gain ; the sacrifice of his old self permits him to exchange ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
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