Ulysses Annotated: Revised and Expanded Edition

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University of California Press, Jan 14, 2008 - Fiction - 645 pages
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.

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Contents

NOTES FOR JOYCEs Ulysses CONTENTS
9
Nestor
29
Proteus
43
The Wanderings of Ulysses
67
LotusEaters
83
Hades
103
Aeolus
127
Lestrygonians
155
Cyclops
313
Nausicaa
383
Oxen of the Sun
407
Circe
451
The Homecoming
531
Ithaca
565
Penelope
609
Rhetorical Figures in Aeolus
635

Scylla and Charybdis
191
The Wandering Rocks
258
Sirens
289

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About the author (2008)

Internationally renowned Joyce scholar Don Gifford (1919–2000) was Professor of English and American Studies at Williams College and author of Joyce Annotated: Notes for Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception.

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