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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... objects speak . Just as in a whorehouse women become commodities and houseguests be- come customers , so in " Circe " intangible conditions become words , and words become palpable objects . Franco Moretti is thus close to the mark when ...
... objects also seem frozen and fixed in place , as if designed to reassure their possessors of their own secure existence . For example , Bloom gazes at three " homothetic " ( similar and similarly placed — i.e . , triangular ) objects ...
... objects , including letters and drawings by Milly that depict Bloom as " Papli " ( 17.1776- 78 ; 1792 ) ; a faded Christmas card ( 17.1780–83 ) ; pornographic and nonpornographic photos ( 17.1809-12 ; 1779 ) ; an ancient bazaar ticket ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
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