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Joyce's creative process and the construction of characters in Ulysses, becoming the Blooms, Luca Crispi

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Joyce's creative process and the construction of characters in Ulysses

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Luca Crispi

becoming the Blooms

This is both a study of how James Joyce created two of the most iconic characters in literature - Leopold Bloom and Marion Tweedy Bloom - as well as a history of the genesis of 'Ulysses'. From a genetic critical perspective, the book explores the conception and evolution of the Blooms as fictional characters in the work's wide range of surviving notes and manuscripts. At the same time, it also chronicles the production of Ulysses from 1917 to its first edition in 1922 and beyond

Introductory contexts -- Boylansday: 16 June 1904 -- The genesis of Leopold Bloom: 1866-86 -- Marlon Tweedy-becoming Molly: 1870-86 -- The courtship of Leopold Bloom and Marion Tweedy: July 1886-October 1888 -- Married life: 1888-93 -- Life goes on: 1893-1902 -- 7 Eccles Street: 17 June 1904 -- Appendix 1: A brief overview and glossary of the kinds of Ulysses manuscripts and documents -- Appendix 2: A census of the extant Ulysses manuscripts by episodes -- Appendix 3: A chronological list of extant Ulysses manuscripts and typescripts -- Appendix 4: A chronological list of Ulysses in proofs: June 1921 to January 1922 (Paris)