Virgin and Veteran Readings of Ulysses

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Virgin Reading, Possible Worlds Theory, and the Odyssean Intertext of Ulysses....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
The Conflicts of Stephen Dedalus: From the “Telemachiad” to “Aeolus”....Pages 25-41
The Stakes of Stephen’s Gambit in “Scylla and Charybdis”....Pages 43-65
The Larger World of “Wandering Rocks”: The Case of Father Conmee....Pages 67-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
The Blooms: Secrets and Suspense in “Calypso” and “Lotus Eaters”....Pages 85-100
Jewish in Dublin: Bloom’s Encounters on the Way to “Cyclops”....Pages 101-114
An Anatomy of Anti-Semitism: The “Cyclops” Episode....Pages 115-134
The (Im)possible Worlds of “Oxen of the Sun”....Pages 135-155
“Circe”: Stephen’s and Bloom’s Catharsis....Pages 157-181
The Text as Salvation Army: Abjection and Perception in “Eumaeus”....Pages 183-198
Stephen Dedalus’s Anti-Semitic Ballad: A Sabotaged Climax in “Ithaca”....Pages 199-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Molly Bloom before “Penelope”....Pages 217-235
The Worlds of “Penelope”....Pages 237-263
Back Matter....Pages 265-294