Abstract

Just what does Stephen Dedalus eat in Ulysses? The question not only troubles the understanding of the novel as a kind of digestive system, even a celebration of eating, but its implications challenge realist and allegorical readings alike. This essay proposes a contrary reading of the novel as composed of anisometric eating habits and attitudes among characters who share only the need to eat, just as readers of Ulysses may all seek the nourishment of meaning but what they find has much to do with what they will and will not eat.

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