Ulysses Annotated

by Seidman, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9780520253971
• ISBN10: 0520253973
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-14
• Publisher: Ingram Publisher Services, Inc.

Summary

Don Gifford's annotations to Joyce's great modern classic comprise a specialized encyclopedia that will inform any reading ofUlysses.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 ofUlysses,but to the standard 1961 Random House edition, and the current Modern Library and Vintage texts.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	p. ix
Preface and Acknowledgments (1974)	p. xiii
The Notes and Their Use	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Notes for Joyce's Ulysses
The Telemachiad	p. 9
Telemachus	p. 11
Nestor	p. 29
Proteus	p. 43
The Wanderings of Ulysses	p. 67
Calypso	p. 69
Lotus-Eaters	p. 83
Hades	p. 103
Aeolus	p. 127
Lestrygonians	p. 155
Scylla and Charybdis	p. 191
The Wandering Rocks	p. 259
Sirens	p. 289
Cyclops	p. 313
Nausicaa	p. 383
Oxen of the Sun	p. 407
Circe	p. 451
The Homecoming	p. 531
Eumaeus	p. 533
Ithaca	p. 565
Penelope	p. 609
Rhetorical Figures in Aeolus	p. 635
Index	p. 645
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