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

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V
9
VI
11
VII
29
VIII
43
IX
67
X
69
XI
83
XVII
289
XVIII
313
XIX
383
XX
407
XXI
451
XXII
531
XXIII
533
XXIV
565

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XIII
127
XIV
155
XV
191
XVI
259
XXV
609
XXVI
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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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