In this way, the Connotations Symposium also contributes to current research on explanatory annotation (see ) Programme In our 2019 symposium, this means considering concepts of understanding literary texts through annotations, and getting a better idea of what is involved in explaining texts locally. (For previous examples, see our special issues). The subject of “Understanding (through) Annotations” is well suited to the programme of Connotations, as it combines the detailed study of individual texts written in English with wider theoretical perspectives. All this makes it even more urgent than ever to link theoretical reflexion on annotations with specific analyses and models of best practice. In the latter role, however, they may become a key device for making large corpora answer questions that go beyond the scope of individual texts. Their precarious status has assumed a new form, as they are now located somewhere between being an explanatory and tool and just serving as the markup of texts. In the digital age, annotations have overcome some of their traditional limitations and perhaps been subjected to new ones. They have been suspected of manipulating the reader in a clandestine fashion while at the same time they have been regarded as a necessity, for they are an essential means of keeping alive many texts of world literature, from Homer to the Modernists, by making them comprehensible and meaningful to readers.
A captivating and brilliant read.A Visual Annotation of Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song” – Credit: Glen Downey, Explanatory annotations have always had a somewhat precarious and even paradoxical status: with a few exceptions, they have been considered “below” the concern of the theorist and literary critic, while in some sense they have also been considered “above” the sphere of the textual editor, who has eyed their flights of interpretive fancy with distrust. “Highly accessible and beautifully written. “Meticulously researched.” - Belfast Telegraph Birmingham delivers in a lively text, with fascinating detail, a ‘biography of a book.’”- Sydney Morning Herald “ has a right to stand foremost on the shelf of those 300 books on Ulysses.”- National Post for readers who value Ulysses for the revolution it affected in fiction, Birmingham has chronicled an epoch-making triumph for literature." - Booklist "What Birmingham delivers for the first time is a complete account of the legal war waged -chiefly by publisher Bennett Cerf and attorney Morris Ernst-to get Joyce’s masterpiece past British and American obscenity laws.
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“Birmingham's new book is an exemplary piece of Joycean scholarship: immensely readable, deeply informed, and full of insights into what seems like an old story - but is really a story that is told here fully for the first time.”- Sunday Business Post (Ireland) He tells the story with a mixture of compelling insight and deeply researched knowledge to form that most unusual hybrid: an erudite page-turner.” - Mail on Sunday “Birmingham is excellent at bringing to life the conflict. It looks back to a time 'when novelists tested the limits of the law and when novels were dangerous enough to be burned' and makes one almost nostalgic for it.” "The Most Dangerous Book" makes use of newspaper reports, court documents, letters and the existing Joyce biographies.
The story of "Ulysses" has been told before, but not with Mr.
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Birmingham serves up a series of entertaining courtroom dramas. May Birmingham’s book bring legions of new readers its way.” - The New Yorker (online) “ Birmingham’s brilliant study makes you realize how important owning this book, the physical book, has always been to people, maybe first and foremost because it told other people who they were. “The Most Dangerous Book” is th e fullest account anybody has made of the publication history of “Ulysses”: its life as contraband, as talisman, as symbol, as sensualist’s bible and micro-atlas of the modern city.” “ is its hero, and our sense of him is deepened immeasurably by Birmingham’s book.” If you are a young tryster who happens to be in Dublin, why not take a walk through Ringsend Park, the way Joyce and his girl did that evening? else can commemorate the day by buying and reading Kevin Birmingham’s terrific new “biography” of Ulysses, ‘The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses.’” “Today is Bloomsday, the hundred and tenth anniversary of the events in James Joyce’s “Ulysses”.
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