Molly Bloom and the Comedy of Remarriage

Drawing upon Stanley Cavell’s concept of the comedy of remarriage and Alain Badiou’s event theory, this essay argues that, in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Molly Bloom’s love-event is necessarily missed the first time, but it is reasserted in a final repetition, after the initial misrecognition of infideli...

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Main Author: Camelia Raghinaru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2012-12-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/532