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Identifier	Thesis 1800
Author	Gillis, Virginia
Title	The Deconstructive Reader and the Stephen/Bloom Artist: A Closer Look at Buck, Boylan, and the Bond
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2005
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	This thesis examines James Joyce's Ulysses using the basis of deconstruction. Instead of merely deconstructing the language of Joyce's text through examples, words, and fragments, this thesis attempts to find meaning through deconstructing those ideas and characters which give the work its purpose. Insomuch as the theories of deconstruction have been applied at length to the text itself, by countless notable critics, this thesis will examine the interaction of the deconstructive reader with the ideas and characters presented in Joyce's text in his quest of acceptable proof of meaning. And, insomuch as the compilation of newer criticism of the text, both post-modern and post-structural, seeks to find new purposes and intentions within the text, this thesis will maintain the original concept of the connection of Stephen and Bloom in the whole artist and attempt to define and understand this purpose through modern and post-modern theory. The work is divided into ten sections. The first four sections provide the context within which one reaches the purpose of the novel. The first section, "The High Priest of Difficulty" serves as an introduction to the thesis and outlines the purpose of the text to be analyzed and the requirements of the deconstructive reader. The second section, "Defining Deconstruction: What It Is and Not Is" attempts to define the basic ideology of deconstruction theory and relate it by example to the text of Ulysses. Within this section the thesis also discusses the modernist concepts of T.S. Eliot and Umberto Eco as they apply to Joyce's texts. In the third section, "Epic Adventure and/or Romantic Arabesque?" the thesis explains the difficulty of accepting or eliminating one-above-all categorical genres for the work. This section shows that Ulysses has the elements of both epic and novel, while at once, subverting, disordering, and reconstructing these genres not only in Ulysses, but by way of Ulysses in the original construction itself. Ulysses alters one's perception of Odysseus and the purpose of heroic epic, as well as the prototypical Romantic hero and representation. After excavating Joyce, one changes the way one reads epic and novel conceptions. The following six sections provide the basis for proving the purpose of the novel through the deconstructive reader. "The Place of the Contemporary Artist" shows a universe prepared by Joyce for a new art and a new artist. The next three sections, "Buck Mulligan Makes an Artist" "The Fertility of Blazes Boylan" and "Other Fathers" seek to prove that Joyce moves Stephen and Bloom, through auxiliary characters, toward the culmination of the new artist. In "Male Bonding" the thesis explores the futility of the connection between Stephen and Bloom and the possible outcomes of said meeting. Finally, in concluding, the thesis maintains that the deconstructive reader, seeking to find proof of purpose, in the difficult and obscure examples, be they idea or character, which make up Joyce's text creates itself a new reading and a new reader--one who finds not frustration and pain, but acceptance and pleasure.
Subject	Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Ulysses -- Criticism and interpretation Deconstruction
Department	Department of English
Advisor	Dunne, Robert, 1964-
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713734056
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