Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Title Page

thumb|600px|center|page=2 Annotations ULYSSES5Ulysses is the dominant English form (and the form used across Europe, with slight variations) of standard Latin Ulixēs. The name itself corresponds to Ancient Greek Ὀδυσσεύς (Odysseus): the hero of Homer's Odyssey. The Latin Ulyssēs is a less classical variant, used in standard English translations of Homer's epic (e.g. George Chapman, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Butler). In particular, Joyce was familiar from a young age with Charles Lamb's The Adventures of Ulysses.James Joyce Ellmann Richard 1982 Oxford University Press New York 46 In 1895, when he was in his third year at Belvedere College, Joyce chose Ulysses as his subject for an essay entitled "My Favourite Hero".James Joyce Gorman Herbert Sherman 1939 Farrar & Rinehart New York 45 PRONUNCIATION OF THE TITLE5Ulysses has traditionally been stressed on the second syllable, in accord with the original Latin. It still is, in US English especially. But often it is stressed on the first syllable instead, notably in the UK and Ireland when referring to the novel. Whichever syllable Joyce himself stressed, he pronounced the word as "oulissays" or "oolissays",James Joyce Ellmann Richard 1982 Oxford University Press New York 230 n very close to the original Latin (no initial "y" sound, for example). SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY5Shakespeare and Company was a bookstore founded by an American expatriate Sylvia Beach in Paris. It originally opened at 8 Rue Depuytren on 17 November 1919 before moving to larger premises at 12 Rue de l'Odéon in 1922. Joyce first met Beach at a literary soirée at the poet André Spire's house at Neuilly-sur-Seine on 11 July 1920. Fittingly, Beach first approached Joyce in Spire's library. The following day Joyce visited her bookshop and the two became fast friends. Sylvia Beach went on to publish Ulysses on 2 February 1922.James Joyce Ellmann Richard 1982 Oxford University Press New York 488–489 RUE DE L'ODÉON5The Rue de l'Odéon is a street in the Odéon quarter of the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the Left Bank. The French poet Adrienne Monier's bookshop, La Maison des amis des livres, was located at No. 7. In 1922 her lover Sylvia Beach moved her bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, to No. 12. On his second visit to Paris in early 1903, Joyce regularly dined at a café in the nearby Carrefour de l'Odéon.James Joyce Gorman Herbert Sherman 1939 Farrar & Rinehart New York 100James Joyce Ellmann Richard 1982 Oxford University Press New York 123 References Annotations to James Joyce's UlyssesPreceding Page | Page Index | Next Page