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Did you read the edition of the novel and what are your thoughts? How good is the Vintage international paperback edition? The Vintage uses the Random House text. Definitely a good reading edition. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public.
Name required. Follow Following. Infinite Zombies Join other followers. Each different colour I assigned to a different character or set of characters. This helped me navigate around the book, finding certain passages, certain scenes, certain chapters. For the start of each chapter, I placed an index flag as close to the inside of the spine as I could get it, allowing me to see at a glance where in the novel certain characters were.
A chapter focusing on Bloom was orange, Stephen was Blue, Bloom and Stephen, when they appeared in the same chapter, were green, and so on. When I found passages that I knew I would want to return to, to quote in an assignment or to have another go at understanding, I would place an index flag on the outside corner of the page. If I needed more space to comment on these passages than the margins would allow, I used sticky notes in a similar fashion, to extend the margins.
This practice serves another, psychological function, too. Because it is such a big novel, people reading it tend to experience those classic feelings of hopelessness, as if they are making no progress, as if they will never finish. This is compounded if you are a student and working to a deadline.
Placing these index flags sets you small achievable goals. Big things are more easily achieved when broken down in to smaller, achievable goals. The placing of index flags on pages of interest, as we mentioned, gives you a path to follow back, but it also functions as a big dayglo indicator of just how much you have managed to read so far, something that, when tackling a big, tough, novel, is immensely heartening.
The copy of Ulysses I used during my undergraduate degree. Above are some tips that are useful when studying any text, whether for business or pleasure. I, however, came across a solution to a particular annoyance with Ulysses whilst I was writing my dissertation on it. Most editions of Ulysses do not include either a table of contents for the chapter, the chapter titles, or even any indication that a new chapter has begun apart from a single sentence beginning with a letter in upper-case bold.
This made it difficult to range over the text and find quotes and things to cite when I was researching it and writing about it. To solve this, I flicked through the book, noting where the chapter changes occur. I then, using this table of contents, went back through the text, numbering each chapter and copying the titles in.
As a quick aside, those chapter titles were included when the novel was serialised. Joyce had them removed when it was published whole as a book, fearing that including the chapter titles, all of which were Homeric allusions, would give too much away.
See what I mean about Joyce expecting you to put in a bit of work? In this case you might eventually have to start using the back jacket cover. Look these words up later ideally in the OED to increase both your vocabulary and your understanding of Joyce. Some of these words will probably be Joycean neologisms.
I encourage you to steal them, shamelessly. Yet another general tip with a practical particularity to it regarding this novel is, if you are having trouble getting along with the prose, try reading it aloud. The alliteration, assonance, rhyme both internal and otherwise, use of plosives and use of slang come to life when spoken.
Joyce was known as an excellent tenor and had an exacting interest in speech, song and turns of phrase. He was also, however, scandalously bad at playing the guitar. You could also listen to it! Again, for a student this may not be entirely practicable, but this is a funny novel, and you can tell that, despite the travails Joyce went through to get it completed and in print, he did have fun writing it and he wanted his readers to have fun reading it.
For example, the serious style that is often employed when Stephen is around, or to portray his mind, is supposed to be so utterly pretentious that you both feel slightly sorry for him, and laugh along as the narrator gently mocks him.
A lot of the novel takes place in pubs and a lot of the talk and action is fuelled by drink. It is a representation of life, and that is what life is like.
One more thing. Just call it research. Reblogged this on decadentdaughter and commented: So incredibly helpful. Joyce himself approved this one!!!!!!!!!! I got mine from Edward R. Hamilton booksellers…….. I adore them both. Very helpful and encouraging guide. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I totally expect a full report!! Dec 09, AM. For the writing and rewriting tale of Ulysses in its full complexity, read Michael Groden's book Ulysses in Progress : very strongly recommended. Mar 17, AM. Hey Melanie, I think there are two considerations to make. One is whether or not this is going to be your first and only read through Ulysses.
If so, I'd recommend getting the Gabler edition. Otherwise, the edition, which Oxford also has a copy of, is a great place to start. Mar 23, AM. Generally, Joyceans use the Gabler Corrected Text. I've the Random House edition, as well, just "everyone" goes by the pagnation following the Gabler text, mostly. Add a reference: Book Author.
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