Full Description
James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. This new edition - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions, while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years.
Contents
Introduction; Joyce's Schemata for Ulysses; Ulysses, with Introductory Essays: 1. Telemachus Karen R. Lawrence; 2. Nestor Robert Spoo; 3. Proteus Sam Slote; 4. Calypso Margot Norris; 5. Lotus Eaters Maud Ellmann; 6. Hades Barry Devine; 7. Aeolus Terence Killeen; 8. Lestrygonians Matthew Hayward; 9. Scylla and Charybdis Matthew Creasy; 10. Wandering Rocks Scarlett Baron; 11. Sirens Katherine O'Callaghan; 12. Cyclops Vince Cheng; 13. Nausicaa Vicki Mahaffey; 14. Oxen of the Sun Sarah Davison; 15. Circe Ronan Crowley; 16. Eumaeus Tim Conley; 17. Ithaca Fritz Senn; 18. Penelope Catherine Flynn; A Note on Annotations; The Errata Ronan Crowley and Catherine Flynn; Further Reading; Index of Characters.
