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Culture/Capital A Speculative Consideration Of James Joyce's Ulysses, Audrey Del Grosso
Culture/Capital A Speculative Consideration Of James Joyce's Ulysses, Audrey Del Grosso
West Chester University Master’s Theses
This thesis explores how a speculative consideration of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses that combines postcolonial and Marxist and theoretical perspectives can challenge traditional critical approaches that are dogmatically one-sided. Three episodes of the work are analyzed to demonstrate the relationship between culture and economics, which aligns with the above-mentioned theoretical approaches.
The selected episodes -- “Telemachus” (episode 1), “Nestor” (episode 2), and “Scylla and Charybdis” (episode 9) -- focus on Stephen Dedalus and provide the opportunity to consider the manifestation of colonialism and imperialism in his various relationships.
Adopting a speculative approach anchored in the Hegelian-influenced philosophy of Gillian Rose, …