The semiotics of food in James Joyce's "Ulysses"

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dc.check.date2025-05-30
dc.contributor.advisorLaird, Heatheren
dc.contributor.authorSmall, Felicity (Flicka)
dc.contributor.funderUniversity College Corken
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-21T12:39:26Z
dc.date.available2022-01-21T12:39:26Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.submitted2021
dc.description.abstractFood lies at the heart of human life, playing a profound role throughout the world and history. This thesis looks at the microcosm of food and foodways in James Joyce’s Ulysses, through semiotics, anthropology and personal research and experience. A close textual reading of the novel examines how Joyce not only had a keen appetite for cataloguing and describing food, its production, and consumption, but also used it as a sign and symbol to indicate social, political, and cultural nuances of Dublin city in 1904. From the theories of Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss on semiotics and anthropology, to the meditations on gastronomy by Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, we are invited to know and eat with Leopold Bloom as he rises in the morning and makes breakfast in bed for his wife, through a long day of sharing meals and eating alone, to the memories of exchanged seed-cake spittle when courting his wife Molly many years before. Food builds a picture of Bloom, his physique, his love-life, his fears and his quasi-scientific musings, which is then elaborated on and enhanced by the many additions that Joyce made to the text before the raw serial version became the ready-to-eat finished novel. The final chapter gives forensic examples of passages expanded and enriched by Joyce during the re-drafting process. In Joycean tradition, this thesis also includes an organ of its own, an appendix. All the food-words from fifteen of the episodes are itemised, showing where they are repeated in the text, and their provenance, meaning and semiotic value.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationSmall, F. 2021. The semiotics of food in James Joyce's "Ulysses". PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
dc.identifier.endpage216en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12447
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dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.relation.projectUniversity College Cork (College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences, School of English, PhD Studentship)en
dc.rights© 2021, Felicity (Flicka) Small.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectJames Joyceen
dc.subjectFooden
dc.subjectSemioticsen
dc.subjectBrillat-Savarinen
dc.titleThe semiotics of food in James Joyce's "Ulysses"en
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD - Doctor of Philosophyen
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