Virgin and Veteran Readings of Ulysses

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"