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bow. In these works, Pynchon increasingly associated âspatial abstraction with a logic of violence that blotted out ânativesâ from the landscape in the nineteenth century and enabled bombing campaigns in the twentiethâ (86). The most compelling individual study is that of Ulysses. Bulson deftly summarizes and gently tweaks several decades of scholarship on the represented spaces of the text and goes on to place these within historical, biographical, and ideological contexts. He reiterates that Bloomâs wayward route in âLotus Eatersâ forms the shape of a question mark (67) and identifies the symmetrical routes taken by Bloom early and late in the novel. He also points out, however, the disorientation produced by the fact that âmodernists donât describe streets, they name themâ (69); this is particularly evident in the consummately labyrinthine structure of âWandering Rocks,â which provides as much confusion as insight even as the two main routes charted out, representing church (Father Conmee) and state (Lord Dudley), trace the pattern of a large âXâ across Dublin. Clive Hart has suggested that Joyceâs habit of merely naming locations simulates a kind of communication with fellow citizens, thereby providing the reader with a sense of belonging. Bulson sensibly counters that
Novel: A Forum on Fiction – Duke University Press
Published: Jun 1, 2010
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