Don Gifford

Robert J. Seidman

"Teaches more than how to read a particular novel; it teaches us more profoundly how to read anything. This, I think, is the book's main virtue. It teaches us readers to transform the brute fact of our world."--Hugh Kenner

Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses

Ulysses Annotated

Looks at how modern technology has changed the way we perceive the world, and compares modern impressions of the world with those of two hundred years ago

A Natural History of Perception, 1798-1984

The Farther Shore

This substantially revised and expanded edition of Don Gifford's Notes to Joyce: Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man puts the requisite knowledge at the disposal of scholars, students, and general readers. Professor Gifford's labors in gathering these data into a single volume have resulted in an invaluable sourcebook.

Notes for Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce Annotated

Don Gifford in Zones of Re-membering shows clearly, thoughtfully, yet entertainingly how no one explanation will account for the depth and complexity of human experience and its grounding in Memory. Because consciousness is a function of Memory, “life without Memory is no life at all” as Alzheimer’s all too frequently demonstrates. Both our individual and collective Memory is stored in the arts, he contends, which in turn provide a way of knowing and of nourishing Memory and consciousness. Memory, like language, is never really stable or accurate but appears as narrative and these narratives collectively form our entire culture. For Gifford, the profoundest explorer of the human consciousness, time, and memory is James Joyce and in its range of reference, wit, and humanity the spirit of Joyce permeates this book.

Time, Memory, and (un)Consciousness

Zones of Re-membering

A work of extraordinary erudition and clarity, The Farther Shore shows how technology has transformed civilization, and how it has profoundly altered the ways we perceive virtually everything. A brilliant illumination of what the human race has made of itself and the world.

An encylopedic handbook of facts and allusions in Dubliners and A portrait of the artist as a young man.

Notes for Joyce: Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

An Annotation of James Joyce's Ulysses

Notes for Joyce

Notes for Joyce; an Annotation of James Joyce's Ulysses

In James Joyce's early work, as in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, meanings are often concealed in obscure allusions and details of veiled suggestive power. Consistent recognition of these hidden significances in Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man would require an encyclopedic knowledge of life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dublin such as few readers possess. Now this substantially revised and expanded edition of Don Gifford's Notes to Joyce: "Dubliners" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" puts the requisite knowledge at the disposal of scholars, students, and general readers. An ample introductory essay supplies the historical, biographical, and geographical background for Dubliners and Portrait. The annotations that follow gloss place names, define slang terms, recount relevant gossip, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend and lore, explain religious nomenclature and practices, and illuminate cryptic allusions to literature, theology, philosophy, science and the arts. Professor Gifford's labors in gathering these data into a single volume have resulted in an invaluable source-book for all students of Joyce's art.

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