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The new Bloomsday book : a guide through Ulysses

Title
The new Bloomsday book : a guide through Ulysses / Harry Blamires.
Author
Blamires, Harry.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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Description
xvi, 253 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  • Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have take several readings to achieve.
  • The New Bloomsday Book is a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of Ulysses which illuminates symbolic themes and structures along the way. It is a highly accessible, indispensible guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first time.
Subject
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Bloom and Dedalus family trees -- 1. Telemachus -- 2. Nestor -- 3. Proteus -- 4. Calypso -- 5. The Lotus Eaters -- 6. Hades -- 7. Aeolus -- 8. The Lestrygonians -- 9. Scylla and Charybdis -- 10. The Wandering Rocks -- 11. The Sirens -- 12. The Cyclops -- 13. Nausicaa -- 14. Oxen of the Sun -- 15. Circe -- 16. Eumaeus -- 17. Ithaca -- 18. Penelope.
ISBN
  • 0415138574 (hbk.)
  • 0415138582 (pbk.)
LCCN
95044440
OCLC
  • 33276477
  • ocm33276477
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries