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The New Bloomsday Book: Guide Through "Ulysses" (Routledge International Studies in) Paperback – 26 Sep 1996

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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 3 edition (26 Sept. 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0415138582
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415138581
  • Product Dimensions: 14 x 1.6 x 21.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have take several readings to achieve. The New Bloomsday Book is a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of Ulysses which illuminates symbolic themes and structures along the way. It is a highly accessible, indispensible guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first time.

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4.0 out of 5 starsAt last, a sensible exposition of Ulysses
By A Customer on 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 starsBlamires's book is essential for first-time Joyce readers
By A Customer on 8 July 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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5.0 out of 5 starsYour doorway to Ulysses
By Friend of Dorothy on 16 April 2013
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I chanced upon this book when starting Ulysses and it gave me everything I needed to enjoy the book and understand much that otherwise would have been obscure. Blamires' book mirrors the structure of the novel and leads the reader through it paragraph by paragraph, so it really is a companion work. Also, at about 260 pages (in the edition I read) it's succinct.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA great, almost perfect, first time guide.
By C.Davis on 2 Jan. 2010
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Apart from desperately needing a character reference list The Bloomsday Book is a great first time general guide to Ulysses for a serious reader (if you aren't a serious reader you have no business with Ulysses).
It has a chapter by chapter interpretation, regular page reference numbers for the two main editions, a reasonable index and an accessible style.
For serious study you will still need to use an detailed annotation book, but since annotation books alone can be tedious and overwhelming an interpretative guide such as this is invaluable to help us see a pattern amongst the chaos.
However, since there is no one authoritative interpretation of Ulysses, I would recommend getting your hands on as many guides, essays and audio lectures as possible - see my review on Ulysses for further information and tips in this regard.
As we learn in the Cyclops episode - the more eyes the better!

I also think this book would benefit from some maps and photos of Dublin.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent
By J. Bresnan on 16 Nov. 2010
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Highly recommend this for anyone reading Ulysses. Good references and synopsis throughout. Line note references in it refer to the Gabler edition of Ulysses.
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5.0 out of 5 starsEssential Reading
By Prawn on 23 April 2013
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The Bloomsday book is invaluable if you'd like to understand Ulysses on the first read rather than the third or fourth. Intricately detailed but amazingly concise. Blamires does not use an unnecessary word throughout -- it is clear he could write a book on each chapter alone, but he just scratches the surface of everything, giving a very well-rounded view and leaving the reader to choose what they'd like to study deeper. There is endless material written on this book, a Google Scholar search of anything he mentions will grant endless reading should you wish. I paired Bloomsday with the Jim Norton audiobook for my first time and I have to say it was the best reading experience of my life.
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5.0 out of 5 starsENLIGHTENING - Modern-day Odysseus, precursor to FINNEGANS WAKE
By James C Brandon on 1 Dec. 2015
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Joyce was 40 yrs old when Ulysses was published, it is a day in the life of a husband and father of Joyce's age (at publication). Joyce loved Dublin and Ireland and though the book was written on the European continent - he wanted to memorialize his birth home (Ireland). The framework of Ulysses is Homer's Odyssey - The Roman Ulysses: 1 Telemachus, 2 Nestor, 3 Proteus, 4 Calypso, 5 Lotus Eaters, 6 Hades, 7 Aeolus, 8 Lestrygonians, 9 Scylla And Charybdis, 10 Wandering Rocks, 11 Sirens, 12 Cyclops, 13 Nausicca, 14 Oxen Of The Sun, 15 Circe, 16 Eumaeus, 17 Ithaca, and 18 Penelope.

Literary complements like "The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses ..." can be helpful in understanding Joyce's works.

Ulysses is the tale of a Modern-day Odysseus, Leopold Bloom in his personal existential/sexual quest. The conclusion of this quest is the quintessential affirmation of humanity, the fundamental family unit - the father, mother, son, and daughter. Like Odysseus, absent from Penelope, traveling the world, for many long years, Leopold Bloom is also absent from his Penelope (in Dublin). Like a traveler (Odysseus), Bloom is sexually absent (abstinent) from Molly “10 years, 5 months and 18 days” (736). Unlike Odysseus, the obstacles Bloom faces are psychological (modern) - internal travails instead of Odysseus' external travails. Bloom's only son’s death has become a psychological barrier; as Molly reflects: “we were never the same since” (778). Yet Bloom is optimistic throughout the work - in regard to the possibility of another child, again Molly: ”Ill give him one more chance” (780). Affirmatively (as we grow to know Molly) we find she has given and is willing to continue to give Bloom “one more chance”.Read more ›
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