Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List
A Ireland, Nonfiction, Cultural book. So far, this book has provided invaluable help in pointing out some of the...
This comprehensive list of allusions found in James Joyce's modern classic, Ulysses, is in itself a classic and is a feat of literary scholarship of unprecedented magnitude. In brief, this book is a copiously annotated list of Joyce's allusions in such areas as literature, philosophy, theology, history, and the fine arts. So awesome an undertaking would not have been possible without the prior work of such persons as Stuart Gilbert, Joseph Prescott, William York Tindall, M.J.C. Hodgart, Mabel Worthington, and many others. But the present list is more than a compilation of previously discovered allusions, for it contains many allusions that have never been suggested before, as well as some that have only been partially or mistakenly identified in earlier publications.In preparing this work, the author has kept its usefulness to the...
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So far, this book has provided invaluable help in pointing out some of the more obscure and esoteric referenes and allusions in Ulysses. For example, Thornton tells you when certain parts refer to a popular Irish ballad or song that nobody except a hardcore Joycean scholar would know.However, I do not feel that this guide alone is sufficient... The amount of information in this book is surreal. It was a wonderful companion to "Ulysses."
