Virgin and Veteran Readings of Ulysses

1. Introduction: Virgin Reading, Possible Worlds Theory, and the Odyssean Intertext of Ulysses
Margot Norris

Part I. Stephen Dedalu

2. The Conflicts of Stephen Dedalus: From the “Telemachiad” to “Aeolus”
Margot Norris

3. The Stakes of Stephen’s Gambit in “Scylla and Charybdis”
Margot Norris

4. The Larger World of “Wandering Rocks”: The Case of Father Conmee
Margot Norris

Part II. Leopold Bloom

5. The Blooms: Secrets and Suspense in “Calypso” and “Lotus Eaters”
Margot Norris

6. Jewish in Dublin: Bloom’s Encounters on the Way to “Cyclops”
Margot Norris

7. An Anatomy of Anti-Semitism: The “Cyclops” Episode
Margot Norris

8. The (Im)possible Worlds of “Oxen of the Sun”
Margot Norris

9. “Circe”: Stephen’s and Bloom’s Catharsis
Margot Norris

10. The Text as Salvation Army: Abjection and Perception in “Eumaeus”
Margot Norris

11. Stephen Dedalus’s Anti-Semitic Ballad: A Sabotaged Climax in “Ithaca”
Margot Norris

Part III. Molly Bloom

12. Molly Bloom before “Penelope”
Margot Norris

13. The Worlds of “Penelope”
Margot Norris

Nyckelord: Literature, Literary History, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory