Product Description

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 Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40441 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-14
• Format: Deluxe Edition
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 694 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780520253971
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Great book.... misleading title
This is certainly an excellent book, but it is not the annotated Ulysses that you expect from the Pengiun or Oxford editions. That is, the actual text of Ulysses is not in this book, only lengthy and fascinating information about Ulysses itself. So, I would recommend it, only the title is deliberately misleading. I thought I was getting an annotated version of Ulysses, not a book on annotations about another book called Ulysses.

Perfect Companion
This is the perfect addition to any reading of Joyce's Ulysses. It's nice for academic work because it points you in more directions than you can possibly imagine & it works well for casual readers who just want to know more about what they're missing. Joyce was meticulous about detail and Gifford has done an incredible job of laying it all out without being too overwhelming.

The information says that its keyed to whatever editions of Ulysses but I'd also like to note that I used the Gabler text (best!!) and they were in wonderful harmony.

Not Ulysses Annotated
Despite the title, this is NOT Ulysses annotated as it does not contain the text with annotations...merely the annotations themselves. And if your copy of Ulysses does not contain the line numbers to which this is keyed, it is fairly useless.