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Joyce famously composed the tenth episode of Ulysses, “Wandering Rocks,” with painstaking reference to a map of Dublin, becoming, in his words, “a scissors and paste man.” This essay asks—what might it mean to become scissors and paste readers? Radicalizing the form of repetition and interpolation in “Wandering Rocks,” this study conducts an experimental reading of the episode to show how “Wandering Rocks” might intervene on contemporary debates about the structure and representability of the social. Reading “Wandering Rocks” against recent scholarship on the representability of social space, especially that of Bruno Latour and Fredric Jameson, this essay suggests that “Wandering Rocks” provides a thesis regarding the interplay of signs, traces, and complex governing structures that lends nuance to studies of the social, especially regarding the notion of social totality.
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Founded in 1963 at the University of Tulsa by Thomas F. Staley, the James Joyce Quarterly has been the flagship journal of international Joyce studies ever since. In each issue, the JJQ brings together a wide array of critical and theoretical work focusing on the life, writing, and reception of James Joyce. We encourage submissions of all types, welcoming archival, historical, biographical, and critical research. Each issue of the JJQ provides a selection of peer-reviewed essays representing the very best in contemporary Joyce scholarship. In addition, the journal publishes notes, reviews, letters, a comprehensive checklist of recent Joyce-related publications, and the editor"s "Raising the Wind" comments.
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