http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/leopold-bloom Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 06 May 2026 01:11:46 -0400 Wed, 06 May 2026 01:11:46 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/772/james-joyces-ulysses-and-blooms-utopian-vision-of-ireland By Kelley S. Kent - James Joyce's Ulysses is first and foremost a political novel, a "real Irish nationalist epic in its most . . . politically figurative form" (Bowen vii). Joyce himself stated that Ulysses "is the epic of two races," Israel and Ireland ("To Carlo Linati" 273). An analysis of the political views of Joyce’s famous protagonist, Leopold Bloom, can therefore only elucidate his uncertain position in the novel as an Irish, Hungarian Jew. Because of his multi-faceted identity, but mostly his Jewishness, Bloom is an outsider. His Irish nationalist acquaintances (they cannot be called friends) are... Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:40 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/772/james-joyces-ulysses-and-blooms-utopian-vision-of-ireland