The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780415007047 (0415007046)
Publish date: September 23rd 1988
Publisher: Routledge
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Academic,
Reference,
Literature,
European Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
20th Century,
Irish Literature,
College
After just completing my first reading of Ulysses, I am joining my voice to the GR chorus of appreciation for Blamires's guide. MJ referred to it as indispensable in his review, and I concur with his assessment.Blamires provides short, beautifully written overviews of each episode, but these overvie...
I expected the primary purpose of this book to be to point out patterns and obscure references and clarify the more difficult passages in Ulysses. To some degree, it does, but it's actually closer to Cliff's Notes in that the primary purpose seems to be to summarize the book. For some chapters of Ul...
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