...This chapter focuses on the material world of fashion and the import of the oft-cited music hall song “My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl.” It argues that the ironic transformation of the frugal, self-denying woman in this song into a prostitute in “Circe” provides an implicit commentary...

... qualities of “Cyclops.” The chapter provocatively speculates that Joyce may have gravitated toward melodrama in the later episodes of Ulysses, especially “Cyclops” and “Circe,” as a reaction against the now hampering constraints of the modernist aesthetic. Anti Semitism myths of Homer...

...By the time Joyce reaches “Eumaeus,” the reader is prepared for outrageous experiments in Ulysses; after “Cyclops,” “Oxen of the Sun,” and “Circe,” he no longer expects the relative tameness of the initial style. The first sentence of the chapter informs him of the book's return...

...“Comrade Object” puts the “Circe” episode of Ulysses in conversation with animated film of the 1910s and 1920s. Like “Circe,” which invests long-familiar, seemingly inert objects with movement and voice, early animated films gave viewers access to visual landscapes of unprecedented...

... gestural language of hand movements that peculiarly dominated the text of Exiles, as evidenced by its stage directions, was further elaborated on in Ulysses, especially in the “Circe” episode. The heightened readability of the body in silent film is turned to account...