Joyce James

1989 · réf. 009678 — University of California Press Berkeley First paperback printing 1989 1989. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 2nd; 3rd printing; Revised and Expanded Edition ; xviii 645 pages : maps ; 26 cm ISBN 9780520056398 9780520067455 0520056396 0520067452 OCLC 12664345 ; LCCN 85022262 LC PR6019.O9 U647 1988 Dewey 823.912 ; Revised edition of: Notes for Joyce. 1974 ;Includes index ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; "Here substantially revised and expanded Don Gifford's annotations to Joyce's great modern classic comprise a specialized encyclopedia that will inform any reading of Ulysses. Annotations in this edition are keyed both to the reading text of the new critical edition of Ulysses published in 1984 and to the standard 1961 Random House edition and the current Modern Library and Vintage texts. Gifford has incorporated over 1000 additions and corrections to the first edition. The introduction and headnotes to sections provide general geographical biographical and historical background. 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. 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." --Back cover ; Contents: Telemachus -- Nestor -- Proteus -- The Wanderings of Ulysses -- Lotus Eaters -- Hades -- Aeolus -- Lestrygonians -- Scylla and Charybdis -- The Wandering Rocks -- Sirens -- Cyclops -- Nausicaa -- Oxen of the Sun -- Circe -- Eumaeus -- Ithaca -- Penelope -- Rhetorical Figures in Aeolus ; a few pencilings else VG University of California Press, Berkeley, First paperback printing, 1989 paperback