Description
Book SynopsisPresents annotations to Joyce's classic that can inform any reading of "Ulysses". This volume includes annotations that 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, and explain religious nomenclature and practices.
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Table of ContentsPREFACE 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
