A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR ULYSSES:
What follows is a bibliography that represents the books I referenced in my own studies and subsequent teaching of James Joyce’s Ulysses. It’s by no means exhaustive – there are scores more books out there, and some of these might be out of print now, but they are all useful as a syntopic study of Ulysses.
Adams, R.M. (1977) AfterJoyce: Studies in Fiction After Ulysses. Oxford University Press.
Blamires, H. (1966), The New Bloomsday Book – A Guide Through Ulysses. University Paperback/Methuen.
(Indispensable. A simple line-by-line commentary on the novel).
Bolt, Sydney. A Preface to James Joyce. (Don’t have date or publisher, but this is a good study).
Burgess, A. (1965), Here Comes Everybody. Faber & Faber.
Ellmann, R. (1972) Ulysses On The Liffey. Faber & Faber.
Ellmann, R. (1966) James Joyce. Oxford University Press.
(This is THE biography on Joyce).
Gifford, Don. Ulysses Annotated. (Don’t have date or publisher. This is a painstaking annotation of every single reference in Ulysses).
Gilbert, Stuart. James Joyce’s Ulysses. (Don’t have date or publisher, but this is a good study).
Gross, J. (1971) Joyce. Fontana/Collins.
Jameson, F. (1985), 'Ulysses In History', in McCormack, W.J. and Stead, A. (eds) James Joyce & Modern Literature. Routledge.
Joyce, J. (1984), Ulysses (The Corrected Text) (ed) Gabler, H.W. Penguin.
Kenner, Hugh. Ulysses. (Don’t have date or publisher, but this is a good study).
Norris, D. and Flint C. (1994) Joyce for Beginners. Icon Books.
(This is a very accessible cartoon book that acts as a guide to Joyce’s life and works – some excellent chapters on Ulysses).
Parrinder, P. (1984) James Joyce. Cambridge University Press.
Sultan, S. (1964) The Argument of Ulysses. Ohio State University Press.
Tindall, W. Y. A Reader’s Guide to James Joyce. (Don’t have date or publisher, but this is a good study).
ALSO:
VIDEO: Ten Modern Writers series: James Joyce’s Ulysses. Channel 4 (UK). An excellent introduction to the book with some good dramatised extracts.
There’s also the 1960s feature film version directed by Joseph Strick, but this is very dour and completely misses the humour of the book (Molly’s monologue is very good, though). Hopefully the new film version, currently in production, will be better.
VIDEO: Walking into Eternity: James Joyce’s Ulysses; A Dublin Guide with Patrick Ryan. Virtually no critical appreciation here at all, but a visual tour of the locations of the novel with evocative music and Patrick Ryan doing a fair impression of Troy McClure :-). Published by the Ryan Group of Princeton, Inc. Can be bought from the James Joyce Centre, Dublin.
CASSETTE: Try hunting down the BBC Radio 4 version of Ulysses. It has been packaged for commercial sale.
Most of these books can be sourced in university libraries. You might also try the following two addresses:
The James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1.
Email: joycecen@iol.ie Web: www.jamesjoyce.ie
The James Joyce Museum, Joyce Tower, Sandycove, Co. Dublin.
Email: joycetower@dublintourism.ie