The Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends Meet

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Syracuse University Press, 1995 - 472 pages
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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
form a significant part of the novel's realistic subject matter but the relationships between characters are also based upon modes of economic exchange. Moreover, the narrative itself is filled with economic terms that serve as tropes for its themes, events, and techniques.

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
encounter between Stephen and Bloom "makes both ends meet." The book brings together not only the opposed economic impulses in Joyce but also the conflicting strains of regulation and excess in the novel's structural economy.

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Page 107
Lacking even the ownership of his or her own body , a human being is nothing ,
and so the conservation of matter through the ages instead becomes merely
scrupulous meanness on a cosmic scale , and existence becomes a struggle for
 ...
Page 310
Bloom reverses Gerty ' s staging of the roles of seducer and victim , so that now
women see only themselves , and men merely play to that narcissism . There are
no reciprocal gazes , only reflections in the mirror . Trained to see each other ...
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Counterfeits , then , are counternarratives to the authorized fictions of genuine
currency ; while pretending to replicate the legitimate power of governments ,
counterfeits actually claim that institutional guarantees are merely conventional ,
that ...

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Miser and Spendthrift
1
Dedalus Dispossessed
35
Economic Man
70
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Mark Osteen is an associate professor of English at Loyola College in Maryland and has published a number of articles on Joyce and twentieth-century literature.

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TitreThe Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends Meet
Irish studies
Utopianism and Communitarianism
AuteurMark Osteen
Éditionillustrée
ÉditeurSyracuse University Press, 1995
Original provenant del'Université du Michigan
Numérisé10 mars 2008
ISBN0815626533, 9780815626534
Longueur472 pages
  
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