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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... novels would sell at 270 francs a copy , " whereas Ulysses , despite its bulk , cost only 350 francs ( L I 196 ) . Appropriately for a novel about an ad canvasser , Joyce became a literary adman , pitching his novel to potential sub ...
... novel's previous events . The " excrement of the text " ( McGee 1988 , 131 ) , “ Circe ” is its part maudite , its accursed portion , as bottled up energies are expelled and expended in a carni- valization of politics , psychology , and ...
... novel wealthy and complacent , unlike his father , who had to rebuild the family fortunes after his own father had squandered them . In this regard , Bloom imitates the baron's father , reconstructing the family fortunes after his own ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
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