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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... possessed spendthrift habits acquired from years of observing his father and his cronies . Stanislaus himself wrote in 1904 that " the possession of money changes Jim very much for the worse . His mind seems to go on fire for ...
... possession of an object : one first possesses money and then spends it on the desired object ( 1971 , 183 ) . The miser finds satisfaction in " the complete pos- session of a potentiality with no thought whatsoever about its realiza ...
... possession . But these returns in time mostly demonstrate the unobtainability of per- fection : there is an " unsatisfactory equation between an exodus and return in time through reversible space and an exodus and return in space ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
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