Don Gifford's annotations to Joyce's great modern classic comprise a specialized encyclopedia that will inform any reading of "Ulysses. "The suggestive potential of minor details was enormously fascinating to Joyce, and the precision of his use of detail is a most important aspect of his literary method. The annotations in this volume illuminate details which are not in the public realm for most of us. The annotations gloss place names, define slang terms, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend and lore, explain religious nomenclature and practices, trace literary allusions and references to other cultures. Annotations are keyed not only to the reading text of the critical edition of "Ulysses, "but to the standard 1961 Random House edition, and the current Modern Library and Vintage texts.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520253973
ISBN-13
9780520253971
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60194895
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ulysses Annotated : Revised and Expanded Edition
Author
DON Gifford
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
General, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Number of Pages
694 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
41.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6019.O9
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Edition Number
2
Reviews
"["Ulysses Annotated] teaches more than how to read a particular novel; it teaches us more profoundly "how to read anything. This, I think, is the book's main virtue. It teaches us readers how to transform the brute fact of our world."--Robert N. Ross, "Western Humanities Review
Table of Content
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (I974) THE NOTES AND THEIR USE INTRODUCTION NOTES FOR JOYCE'S Ulysses CONTENTS PART I. The Telemachiad EPISODE I. Telemachus EPISODE 2. Nestor EPISODE 3· Proteus PART II. The Wanderings of Ulysses EPISODE 4· Calypso EPISODE 5· Lotus-Eaters EPISODE 6. Hades EPISODE 7· Aeolus EPISODE 8. Lestrygonians EPISODE 9· Scylla and Charybdis EPISODE IO. The Wandering Rocks EPISODE II. Sirens EPISODE 12. Cyclops EPISODE I3. Nausicaa EPISODE I4. Oxen of the Sun EPISODE IS. Circe PART III. The Homecoming EPISODE I6. Eumaeus EPISODE I7. Ithaca EPISODE I8. Penelope APPENDIX: Rhetorical Figures in Aeolus INDEX