Virgin and Veteran Readings of Ulysses

Chapter 1 Introduction: Virgin Reading, Possible Worlds Theory, and the Odyssean Intertext of Ulysses

Chapter 2 The Conflicts of Stephen Dedalus: From the “Telemachiad” to “Aeolus”

Chapter 3 The Stakes of Stephen’s Gambit in “Scylla and Charybdis”

Chapter 4 The Larger World of “Wandering Rocks”: The Case of Father Conmee

Chapter 5 The Blooms: Secrets and Suspense in “Calypso” and “Lotus Eaters”

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

Chapter 7 An Anatomy of Anti-Semitism: The “Cyclops” Episode

Chapter 8 The (Im)possible Worlds of “Oxen of the Sun”

Chapter 9 “Circe”: Stephen’s and Bloom’s Catharsis

Chapter 10 The Text as Salvation Army: Abjection and Perception in “Eumaeus”

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

Chapter 12 Molly Bloom before “Penelope”