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Title: Ulysses Annotated by Don Gifford ISBN: 0-520-06745-2 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Valuable Guide.
Comment: Ulysses Annotated is essential for understanding Joyce's seminal work, Ulysses. The Introduction, prefaces and notes explain how to use this book, and suggest why and how it was compiled. Each episode is preceeded by a map that helps the reader to visualize the movements of Bloom and Stephen throughout their journeys. It is somewhat difficult, even for a well-read student to understand Joyce's allusions without a reference guide book like Giffords.
Also recommended: REDEFINING THE 'SELF': SELECTED ESSAYS ON SWIFT, POE, PINTER, AND JOYCE by John Condon Murray
Rating: 5
Summary: Break it Down
Comment: All the surface details, references to mythology, history, politics, music, literature, etc, can be found in this book (Joyce's novel is not included within, just the annotations, but it still clocks in at 700 pages!). If you want to know exactly what Joyce was referring to--this is the place. However, it won't necessarily tell you what he MEANT (aheheh, some things must be left to the reader).
Of course, if you've never read Ulysses you don't need to know every obscure reference. Just pick up REJOYCE or THE NEW BLOOMSDAY BOOK, which have generalized overviews of the novel. This is for the deep scholars. But as Joyce said, all he expects of his readers is that they study his works for the rest of their lives.
This will keep you busy.
Rating: 4
Summary: Thorough, but not best for the novice reader
Comment: Gifford's book offers fascinating glosses and contextual annotations for Ulysses, but was not quite what I was looking for to help me with my first attempt at the book. The annotations are mostly disjoint explanations of specific allusions and references.
There are other guides to Ulysses that are better suited for the novice Joyce reader, helping the reader to keep track of the plot, the progress of the Odyssey and Hamlet corelations and explaining the shifts in style through the book. This kind of hand-holding may be unnecessary for more sophisticated readers, but for my first read, it was essential!
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Title: Ulysses by James Joyce ISBN: 0679722769 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 16 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses by Harry Blamires ISBN: 0415138582 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses: Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) by James Joyce, Margot Norris ISBN: 0312115989 Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: James Joyce by Richard Ellmann ISBN: 0195033817 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: November, 1983 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: James Joyce's Ulysses by Stuart Gilbert ISBN: 0394700139 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 January, 1955 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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