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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 1,000 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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press; Revised, Expanded edition (June 26, 1989)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 698 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520067452
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520067455
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.25 x 10 inches

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Robert S. Price Jr

An essential book

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2022

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Essential for a deeper understanding of many references to Dublin history and geography, Shakespeare, classical philosophy, and more. Can't imagine reading Joyce's Ulysses with this excellent and thorough annotation.

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Finer details of Ulysses revealed

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The authors created a fine work of reference for Joyce's Ulysses.

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Outstanding Reference for Anyone Reading James Joyce's Ulysses (Please release Kindle edition!)

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I highly recommend “Ulysses Annotated” to anyone who is reading James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses.” I would encourage you to first read Joyce’s novel without looking at these annotations. Afterwards, these annotations will help you discover much that you may have missed: literature; plays; songs; period events; allusions; allegory, mythology; languages; religions; politics; puzzles; Dublin streets and structures; Irish culture in 1904; etc. Reading “Ulysses” with these annotations could easily become a college course in and of itself.

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- While the scope, depth, breadth, and contents of “Ulysses Annotated” are outstanding, the font size is quite too small. Please, please, please release a Kindle edition of this book so I can use larger (eye-saving) font.
- The title of the book is deliberately misleading: This is not “Ulysses Annotated.” The title implies that a copy of Joyce’s Ulysses is included with annotations. In fact, the book is all annotations. “Ulysses Annotated” was written to specifically be used with “Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition.” You can find other editions for Kindle for free or a small fee. The book's proper title might be: "Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses."

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Kathryn Pon

Notes from THE GUIDE which Makes Ulysses Pop

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The internet is not enough. Use this book. Gifford is a trustable guide. These notes will help you avoid fantasy dead-ends not intended by Joyce. Knowing that a “costdrawer” is an appraiser, you can speed past internet posted essays on Daedalus family debts. Hippopotami do not wade the Irish coast waves. Nor do seahorses. Gifford's work was published in 1988 and from him you may imagine Bloom has a potato as talisman in his pocket (instead of a hole in his pocket). So the internet, more current, can be valuable as backup, used with discernment. Fundamentally, Gifford's notes aggregate in one place and simplify so you can enjoy Ulysses.
He helps with backstory, referring you to characters appearing in The Dubliners, to events from Portrait. He is comprehensive in music lyrics with cast, playbill, and venue. He provides enough political history, Greek and Latin, Roman Catholic and Jewish explications. With Gifford in hand, puns and characterizations pop. If to Gifford's notes you add the Univ of Montana's excellent photo illustrated site, Ulysses will become very alive and make you happy in appreciation of each and every page.

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Too focused on details

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Gifford's book is quite good in an scholarly sort of way. He has scrupulously researched the people, streets, shops, songs, literary allusions and other topographical features of both Dublin and Joyce's novel. But he falls short in providing the kind of "here's what's going on" explication and context this notoriously cryptic text cries out for. Ulysses Annotated cruises 50 feet above the ground, rather than taking the reader on the kinds of 500- and 5,000-foot swooping overviews to which Frank Delaney, of blessed memory, treated us in his erudite and thoroughly engaging "Re:Joyce" podcasts.
Someone really needs to pick up where Delaney left off and produce a study of Ulysses that contextualizes the events of Bloomsday within the struggles of Irish history, Homer's epic, Joyce's ontology, his rebellion against religious faith, his literary theories, and the any other vast ideas that populate this masterpiece.

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'Just the Notes, Mam'

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It is well for the reader to understand this work for what it is: a very detailed footnotes to the Epic. The work delves into details that elude most readers in the way of references, contexts and illustrations of apparent compromises and inconsistencies made deliberately or not as the case might be, though we may never know James Joyces' mind to the full extent. Given the length of the work, many might expect an Annotated Novel, but the business is linked only to the notes of both the Modern work and the Classical Epic informing its structure.
The editor is to be saluted on the great erudition that has been applied. Detailed notation of lyrics for many of the songs referenced might not be needed, but I am not sure that some readers may profit from these, even though I have found them a bit of a distraction.

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Excellent research/scholarship

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If you love reading or hearing James Joyce's "ULYSSES", this may be the book for you...
Not for the faint-of-heart. I personally loathe JJ's so-called masterwork, finding it tedious, tendentious and trivial to the extreme! These Annotated Notes DOUBLE DOWN on Joyce's detailed trivia with a vengeance, dissecting each quiddity into a thousand parts

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Carla Campos

magnifica edicion

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Excelente guía

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Es un muy buen libro para adentrarse en la lectura de este gran clásico del siglo XX. Van desde definiciones de palabras hasta contexto histórico.

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Disappointing text quality

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Content is extremely full, almost too full. Essentially derived from teaching to an American student audience so some topics included that are probably well known to British readers. However, the quality of the print could be much sharper and clearer and the binding is already parting slightly. Overpriced and slightly disappointing.

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Razonador

A must read book if you want to understand "Ulysses".

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This book is really useful if you want to understand and sometimes "decode" Joyce's novel. Warning: the title is somehow misleading; this is not Joyce's novel but a formidable tool to enjoy one of the most difficult novels in the history of English literature. The notes are truly detailed and they hep you to track down the countless allusions, puns, songs, classical references, etc. you will find in the novel. Add a very nice introduction and detailed maps of Dublin for each chapter and you will find this revised and expanded version of the original essay is really worth reading.

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Timmyc

If you want to follow Bloom, this is the book

Reviewed in Canada on June 23, 2019

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Joyce was a typical Modernist writer and liked to border on the unintelligible. Beyond that he also had an extreme gift for using provincial and archaic idioms and slang, and general colloquial language. This makes understanding some bits difficult unless you happen to be a young working class Irishmen from the 19th century. Get out your old vintage map of Dublin and this book, and follow along.

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