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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... material assets that fetter him to his masters ; he must spend his money and sever all material ties . Thus for the rest of Ulysses he becomes a kind of living expression of the force of expenditure . Ultimately , however , Stephen can ...
... material authority . Even the characters seem to recognize this " Irish " condition , as MacHugh's words simultaneously expose and excuse it : " Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination . We were never loyal ...
Making Both Ends Meet Mark Osteen. larly claimed that material failure was necessary for artistic success . ' But what of nonartists ? Material failure leaves merely an empty pock- etbook . Hence virtually all of the Dubliners in Ulysses ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
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