Ulysses---En-Gendered Perspectives
Subtitle: Eighteen New Critical Essays on the Episodes
Contributors: Kimberly J. Devlin (Editor); Marilyn Reizbaum (Editor)
Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1999-06
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781570032875
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Ulysses; Joyce, James,; Joyce, James, 1882-1941; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Ireland; Essays; Joyce, James; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 1882-1941; Femininity in literature; Gender identity in literature; Masculinity in literature
First sentence: In Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce shows Stephen Dedalus trying to "shore up'' a self-image, and this process is figured as trying to build a wall to keep the sea at bay: How foolish his aim had been!