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The Cybernetic Plot Of Ulysses
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A paper delivered at the CALIFORNIA JOYCE conference (6/30/93)
Good afternoon.
To quote the opening of Norbert Wiener's address on Cybernetics to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in March of 1950, The word
cybernetics has been taken f .... Middle of Term Paper
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value. This plot -- the plot of signals that are launched on perilous
Odyssean journeys, and that reach home, if they do, only through devious
paths -- parallels and augments the novel's more central journeys, its
dangers encountered, and its successful returns. ULYSSES works rather
neatly as a cybernetic allegory, in fact, not only in its represented
action, but also in its history as a text. The book itself, that is, has
reached us only by a devious path around Cyclopean censors and the Scylla
and Charybdis of pirates and obtuse editors and publishers. ULYSSES both
retells and re-enacts, that is, the Odyssean journey of information ... |
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