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Literary Imagination Advance Access published online on December 3, 2008
Literary Imagination, doi:10.1093/litimag/imn067
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Sentimentality and Self-delusion: Joyce on Society

Stanley Sultan*

*Stanley Sultan, Clark University, MA, USA

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Among the store of treasures in Ulysses, and related to the extensive politics in it, are analyses of two important aspects of modern western society. Neither of these full-fledged sociocultural studies Joyce embodied in his novel is less incisive for being subtle.

One study extends through every chapter of the novel, beginning with the anti-Semites in the first two, Haines and Mr Deasy, and is reflected in the debate among Joyce critics about whether Leopold Bloom is, or is not, a Jew. The next-to-last chapter names his maternal grandparents; and his mother's father, Julius Higgins, who was "(born Karoly)" (17.536–37), may or may not have been.1 Was Bloom's mother Ellen (Higgins) half, and he himself not just half but three-quarters, Jewish? Would her Jewish father (not mother) count? (Does his own?) The creator of a character is not obliged to make the ethnicity of that character difficult to determine: . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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