Virgin and Veteran Readings of Ulysses

Veteran Joyce scholar Margot Norris offers an innovative study of the processes of reading Ulysses as narrative and focuses on the unexplored implications, subplots, subtexts, hidden narratives, and narratology in one of the twentieth-century's most influential novels.

Introduction: Virgin Reading, Possible Worlds Theory, and the Odyssean Intertext of Ulysses PART I: STEPHEN DEDALUS The Conflicts of Stephen Dedalus: From the "Telemachiad" to "Aeolus" The Stakes of Stephen's Gambit: "Scylla and Charybdis" The Larger World of "Wandering Rocks": The Case of Father Conmee PART II: LEOPOLD BLOOM Meet the Blooms: Secrets, Implicature, and Suspense in "Calypso" and "Lotus Eaters" Jewish in Dublin: Bloom's Encounters on the Way to "Cyclops" An Anatomy of Anti-Semitism: the "Cyclops" Episode The (Im)possible Worlds of the "Oxen of the Sun" "Circe": Stephen's and Bloom's Catharsis The Text as Salvation Army: Abjection and Perception in "Eumaeus" Stephen Dedalus's anti-Semitic Ballad: A Sabotaged Climax in "Ithaca" PART III: MOLLY BLOOM Molly Bloom before "Penelope" Don't Call Him "Blazes": Hugh E. Boylan's Narrative Caricature Inside the Worlds of "Penelope"

Margot Norris is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine and former president of the International James Joyce Foundation.