Enchantment, disenchantment, re-enchantment: Joyce and the cult of the absolutely fabulous

Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 1995 by Wicke, Jennifer

1 Another Virgilianis moment occurs when the effeminate boy Gerald Is celebrated in "Circe" for his "pinky eyelids" in service of "the cult of the beautiful."

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