James Joyce's Construction of Deviance in the "Circe" Chapter of Ulysses
This fifteen-page undergraduate paper examines James Joyces construction of deviance in the Circe chapter of his novel, Ulysses. The author notes that in order to convey his concept of deviance, Joyce constructed very detailed scenes involving human activities many people consider degenerate and taboo, such as masturbation, voyeurism, gluttony, dementia, alcoholism, defecation, urination, and sado-masochism. The deviance of these activities was emphasized by Joyce, and he constructed the chapter so that most of them directly involved his protagonist, Leopold Bloom.
