Some Textual and Factual Discrepancies in James Joyce's Ulysses: The Blooms’ Several “First Nights”
This essay investigates how in Ulysses James Joyce created several textual, biographical, temporal, and topographical discrepancies at the narrative origin of Leopold Bloom and Molly Tweedy’s life together. The textual and contextual evidence indicates that there were two (or possibly more) “first n...
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Variants
2017
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| Sumari: | This essay investigates how in Ulysses James Joyce created several textual, biographical, temporal, and topographical discrepancies at the narrative origin of Leopold Bloom and Molly Tweedy’s life together. The textual and contextual evidence indicates that there were two (or possibly more) “first nights” ― different firsts on different evenings ― for the soon to be Blooms. This is one of the many instances in the book when the “facts” in the fiction ― as well as some of the seemingly analogous facts outside the novel ― do not cohere. The genetic study of this kind of temporal and spatial slippage in the book’s purportedly coherent texture challenges readers’ preconceptions about the fixity of the character’s life-stories in the narrative and uncovers some of the ways in which Joyce relied on the names and some facts derived from the lives of real people in a variety of often unexpected ways to create the life-stories of his fictional characters. |
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