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.

CONTENTS:

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (I974)
THE NOTES AND THEIR USE
INTRODUCTION

NOTES FOR JOYCE'S Ulysses CONTENTS

PART I. The Telemachiad
EPISODE I. Telemachus
EPISODE 2. Nestor
EPISODE 3· Proteus

PART II. The Wanderings of Ulysses
EPISODE 4· Calypso
EPISODE 5· Lotus-Eaters
EPISODE 6. Hades
EPISODE 7· Aeolus
EPISODE 8. Lestrygonians
EPISODE 9· Scylla and Charybdis
EPISODE IO. The Wandering Rocks
EPISODE II. Sirens
EPISODE 12. Cyclops
EPISODE I3. Nausicaa
EPISODE I4. Oxen of the Sun
EPISODE IS. Circe

PART III. The Homecoming
EPISODE I6. Eumaeus
EPISODE I7. Ithaca
EPISODE I8. Penelope

APPENDIX: Rhetorical Figures in Aeolus
INDEX

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.