ABSTRACT
The author would agree then with critics like Gerald Bruns and Marilyn French that people have to react against the obscuring tendency of the style, against this hypertrophy of the cliche, to recover qualities of feeling or imagination which have been suppressed or temporarily attenuated. Many critics have inveighed against the terrible tedium of a slow-paced, thinly-textured anticlimax of a section; comparatively few have appreciated its exquisite humour. Exhaustion, sometimes erroneously attributed to the author, has been the reported consequence of the exhaustiveness of Joyce's method in Ulysses. In Eumaeus it is rare for Leopold Bloom to make much creative use of the codes. The reflections comprehending for the most part Bloom's overt and covert fantasies, seem to be transmitted in the putative written style of the protagonist. Although the narrative idiom seems to be properly adjusted to the banality of the fantasies, it concentrates so exclusively on that banality that one might suspect a deliberate depression of the scales.
