SOURCE: Alter, Robert. “James Joyce's Comic Messiah.” American Scholar 66, no. 3 (summer 1997): 452-61.
In the following essay, Alter perceives the character of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses as a version of the Greek epic hero.
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