Joyce Annotated: Notes for Dubliners and a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by Don Gifford

Book Overview

In James Joyce's early work, as in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, meanings are often concealed in obscure allusions and details of veiled suggestive power. Consistent recognition of these hidden significances in Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man would require an encyclopedic knowledge of life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dublin such as few readers possess. Now this substantially revised and expanded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520046102
• ISBN13: 9780520046108
• Release Date: November 1982
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Joyce Notes

This book provides excellent and clear references to otherwise obscure persons, locales, Irish slang, and turn-of-the-century (19th to 20th) Dublin culture that are so integral to the Joyce stories. Well worth the purchase.