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Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition
by James Joyce
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Volume 1 boards lightly bowed, some rubbing to edges; foxing to top of text block edges; short gift inscription on front free en/None as published
- ISBN 10
- 0824043758
- ISBN 13
- 9780824043759
- Seller
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Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler, Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior. Garland, 1919 pp. 1984, First edition. Three volumes. Tan and blue cloth decorated in gilt. Scarce critical edition of Joyce's modern classic.
Condition Volume 1 boards lightly bowed, some rubbing to edges; foxing to top of text block edges; short gift inscription on front free endpapers; overall near fine.
About this book "German scholar Hans Walter Gabler took a controversial approach in his 1984 synoptic edition of Ulysses. He proposed to recover the "original" text from the surviving manuscripts, typescripts, corrected proofs and extant editions. Gabler believed textual variations to be a result of Joyce's glaucoma. The Joyce Estate endorsed Gabler's work, as did a group of influential Joycean scholars. The synoptic version was heralded as a major achievement, and a 1986 reading edition based on Gabler's textual criticism, Ulysses: The Corrected Text, was copyrighted by trustees of Joyce's estate." (UWM Libraries Special Collections)
Synopsis
Ulysses is a modernist novel by James Joyce. It was first serialized in The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and later published by Shakespeare and Company in 1922. Originally, Joyce conceived of Ulysses as a short story to be included in Dubliners , but decided instead to publish it as a long novel, situated as a sort of sequel to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , picking up Stephen Dedalus’s life over a year later. Ulysses takes place on a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin - now celebrated as Bloomsday annually. Within the massive text of 265,000 words (not so “short” anymore, eh?), divided into 18 episodes, Joyce radically shifts narrative style with each new episode, completely abandoning the previously accepted notions of plot, setting, and characters. The presentation of a fragmented reality through interior perception in Ulysses , often through stream-of-consciousness, is one of many reasons it is considered a paramount in Modernist literature. Ulysses presents a series of parallels with Homer’s epic poem Odyssey (Ulysses is the Latinized name of Odysseus.) Not only can correspondences be drawn between the main characters of each text — Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus, Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, and Molly Bloom to Penelope, but each of the 18 episodes of Ulysses reflects an adventure from the Odyssey. In 1998, the American publishing firm Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. February 2022 will mark the centennial of the publishing of Ulysses , with auctions, sales, and celebrations by Joyce fans scheduled around the globe. From our Book Collecting Guide: Collecting Ulysses https://www.biblio.com/book-collecting/basics/collecting-one-book/collecting-ulysses-by-james-joyce/
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Details
- Bookseller
- Yamhill Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CL042
- Title
- Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition
- Author
- James Joyce
- Format/Binding
- Tan and blue cloth decorated in gilt.
- Book Condition
- Used - Volume 1 boards lightly bowed, some rubbing to edges; foxing to top of text block edges; short gift inscription on front free en
- Jacket Condition
- None as published
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0824043758
- ISBN 13
- 9780824043759
- Publisher
- Garland Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1984
- Pages
- 1919
- Keywords
- James Joyce, Ulysses, Synoptic
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Yamhill Book Company
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Yamhill Book Company
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Hillsboro, Oregon
About Yamhill Book Company
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My objective is to deliver well being for the book and the buyer.
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