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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... sexual solicitation is equivalent— “ they like dress- ing one another for the sacrifice . . . . No reasonable offer refused " ( 13.798 ; 806 ) . In this mood Bloom recognizes no distinctions among virginal flirtation , marriage , and ...
... sexual identities . Brini's reading of his genealogy clearly signifies his Jewishness , as does the appearance of his childhood friends Mastian- sky and Citron , complete with earlocks ( 15.1855-69 ; 1904-5 ) . Now Bloom's problematic ...
... sexual commerce . The hermaphrodite in this way illustrates the possibility of an economy that can circulate sex organs and yoke them together . In a sense , the hermaphrodite also typifies the economy of prosti- tution . As Stephen ...
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Miser and Spendthrift | 1 |
Dedalus Dispossessed | 35 |
Economic Man | 70 |
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