{"product_id":"economy-of-ulysses-making-both-ends-meet-paperback","title":"The Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends Meet - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Osteen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 form a significant part of the novel's realistic subject matter but the relationships between characters are also based upon modes of economic exchange. Moreover, the narrative itself is filled with economic terms that serve as tropes for its themes, events, and techniques. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome 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 encounter between Stephen and Bloom \"makes both ends meet.\" The book brings together not only the opposed economic impulses in Joyce but also the conflicting strains of regulation and excess in the novel's structural economy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Osteen\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of English at Loyola College in Maryland and has published a number of articles on Joyce and twentieth-century literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 484\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.21 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130492555399,"sku":"9780815626619","price":40.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/2d798cd4eac0d64bafbf6d926af43576.webp?v=1732611265","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/economy-of-ulysses-making-both-ends-meet-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}