The Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends MeetSyracuse University Press, 1995 - 472 ページ 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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... verbal credit — from a more successful lawyer . But his discourse is inflated currency ; rather than buttressing his authority , his verbal borrowings are devalued by being severed from their judicial context . In his mouth the speech ...
... verbal economy and the financial expenditures of his characters . For Joyce , these losses become assets . Unlike the potlatch at Kiernan's and the Dublin economy in general , his expenditure is also productive labor that subverts the ...
... verbal economy violates the narrator's expressed adherence to bourgeois conservation . As Bell notes , his prose constantly makes " expenditure that is too large " ( 1991 , 115 ) , perpetrating redundancies , wasting words , and ...