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The New Bloomsday Book: Guide Through "Ulysses" (Paperback)

by Harry Blamires (Author) "Joyce's symbolism cannot be explained mechanically in terms of one-for-one parallels, for his correspondences are neither exclusive nor continuously persistent ..." (more)

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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 3 edition (26 Sep 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0415138582
ISBN-13: 978-0415138581
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 2.3 cm

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'This will become the standard work of its kind... Harry Blamires has written a straightforward, unpretentious 263-page paraphrase labour of love. Severely restricting flights of interpretation to useful cross-references, he stays close to the text at all times.' - The Guardian

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An indispensable guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first time, provding a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of Ulysses.

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4.0 out of 5 stars At last, a sensible exposition of Ulysses, 28 April 1998

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Many books aspire to shed light on Ulysses. Many are narrowly philological or encyclopaedic. If you want to know the meaning of a word or the provenience of a song, joke, or proverb, you can use these books much as you would a dictionary. They are keyed to both the old (Random House) or new (Gabler) editions of Ulysses. Blamires, by contrast, is useful if you are--and you will be--all at sea about such rudimentary details as where you are, what is happening, and who a character is. For example, in the chapter which is set in a Dublin maternity hospital, identified by Joyce only as a place of parturition associated with a certain doctor (whose name you will never have heard), Blamires sets the scene, identifies the characters, themes, patterns of imagery and allusion in such a way that what had seemed hopelessly obscure is bathed in light. After reading Blamires I found the text approachable and moving and amusing--i.e., difficult still, but difficult in the way that any major English text is difficult, rather than hopelessly, riddlingly obscure. I ought probably to add that Blamires is a brilliant reader, a wonderful combination of the gifts that characterize a "common reader" (in Virginia Woolf's sense of the word) and a modest and helpful scholar. In other words, he does not make Joyce accessible by having failed to notice that he (Joyce) forgot more than you, reader, will ever know. I warmly recommend this book.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Blamires's book is essential for first-time Joyce readers, 8 Jul 1998

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Harry Blamires's "The New Bloomsday Book" is an essential companion to Joyce's Ulysses. He guides the first-time reader carefully through Joyce's (famously difficult) novel, but does not not challenge the mystery that make Ulysses a joy to read. Blamires's book will make your first reading of Ulysses more rewarding and enjoyable. Then you can read ulysses a second time--that's when the fun really begins!

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