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Rereading 'Ulysses': "Ithaca" and modernist allegory. (book by author James Joyce)

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From: Twentieth Century Literature
Date: 19970922
Author:Sicari, Stephen

It is hypothesized that author James Joyce employed allegory of the kind religious figures used to better relate the biblical old/new testaments in the opening episodes of his book 'Ulysses,' to provide its organizing principal. The allegory employed is reflected in Joyce's use of naturalistic episodes in Ithaca, NY, in the beginning of the book to establish a fixed point that will control the meaning of the later episodes and the rest of the book.

The initial purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how Joyce employs, as an organizing principle for his novel, the kind of allegory Saint ...

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