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Enter your email address to get spammed every time my brain blagh's something out or I am advertising something. Email Address:. You must be logged in to post a comment. So, You Want to Read Ulysses? Sounds intimidating right? James Joyce — Richard Ellmann The definitive biography of Joyce and one of the best literary biographies ever written. Other Useful Material Vladimir Nabokov — Lectures on Literature This collection of lectures, each focussing on a different work, includes a lecture on Ulysses in which Nabokov, similarly to Gilbert, breaks the novel down chapter by chapter.
Editions of Ulysses There has, and mostly likely will never be, an entirely accurate edition of Ulysses. Some Practical Tips You have your edition of Ulysses picked out, as well as a trove of critical material, a light peruse of which means you now feel prepared to finally start reading Ulysses, or start reading it again, and this time, to really get something out of it, hopefully finish it, and who knows, maybe understand it well enough to write about it in an assignment or… D.
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Email required Address never made public. Name required. My Facebook Page. Search for:. Blog at WordPress. Follow Following. James Farson Join other followers. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Essentially, there are three major versions of the Ulysses text, and then one very strange fourth version. If you do a basic Amazon search for Ulysses , these facsimiles are the first things that pop up. The next edition is the text, published after the ban on Ulysses in America was lifted, and reset in This was the standard edition for several decades, and any Joyce criticism written in the mid-century heyday of Joyce-studies will refer to it.
There are two versions of this available: a Vintage paperback , and a Modern Library hardcover. However, several years later, once the Gabler edition had basically become the only one on the market, all hell broke loose. Suffice it to say that the Gabler edition remains the standard edition used by Joyce scholars and academics, so if you think you might want to publish an article in the James Joyce Quarterly some day, you should probably be working with this edition.
But it is an unwieldy, ugly book, as an object, and the paperback version has a binding that comes apart. Just so you know. One problem we will probably face is keeping our page references together across editions. This is one of that handy things about the Gabler edition: he provides episode and line numbers on every page, which makes referring back to the text very easy. Get the Gabler edition. Want to figure it out on your own? Get the edition. I decided to read Ulysses after finishing Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man a couple of weeks ago and just stumbled upon this website.
The textual history of Ulysses , first published on 2 February , is every bit as complex as the novel itself, and what follows is a necessary over-simplification of an editorial cat's cradle. For instance, I have referred to the edition published by Sylvia Beach, an edition I have owned for years. To a Joyce scholar, however, that is like working on Shakespeare exclusively from the First Folio. By some calculations, there are no fewer than 18 separate editions of this book.
Yet it had all begun so modestly, in about In Rome, when I had finished about half of the Portrait , I realised that the Odyssey had to be the sequel, and I began to write Ulysses. The first appearance of pages from this astonishing new novel occurred in , in The Little Review , whose foreign editor was Ezra Pound.
From the first, the text ran into difficulties with the authorities on the grounds of alleged obscenity. By , this first serialisation was over, and The Little Review was no longer publishing monthly instalments.
Beach offered to publish the novel privately, avoiding censorship. Now began the second, chaotic stage of Ulysses ' progress towards full and final publication.
For Joyce, his novel was always evolving; he could never quite leave his text alone.
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