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Benstock, Shari; Benstock, Bernard / Who's he when he's at home : a James Joyce directory
(1980)

Legend,   pp. 235-236


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Legend 
Editions employed: 
D Dubliners [Viking Press "definitive" edition] 
P A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [Viking Press "definitive" edition]
E Exiles [Viking Press] 
S Stephen Hero [New Directions] 
G Giacomo Joyce [Viking Press]—named characters only Ulysses [Random
House 1961] 
Name in Regular Type: character created by Joyce 
Name in FULL CAPITALS: character pre-existing Joyce's fictional use; fictional,
historical, legendary, or contemporary 
*Name preceded by asterisk: actual resident in Dublin 
Name* succeeded by asterisk: not actually a person in this case 
"Name" in quotation marks : pseudonym, nickname, alias, nom de plume, conjectured
name, misnomer, stage name, mock title, punned name 
Name unadorned by either parentheses or brackets : actually present 
(Name) in parentheses: mentioned, referred to, alluded to, thought about
[Name] in brackets : appears in hallucination in Circe chapter 
 exclamation mark indicates expletive or ejaculation rather than a person
?: question mark indicates that identity or appearance in doubt 
Discrepancies between ACTUAL NAME and Joyce's variant are indicated by inclusion
of both, differentiated by appropriate type. 
Designation or description of character listed : Well-known historical or
fictional persons whose names are obviously unique to indicate themselves
alone receive no identification (e.g., Jehovah, Jesus Christ, Moses, Shakespeare,
Moliere); others are given brief identifications. Joyce's own creations are
identified by the roles they play in the works. 
Page and book indicators: Ulysses items are offered first, without any preceding
letter to specify book; others follow with letters indicating the work as
above. If the character never actually appears in the work, his name is in
parentheses, and all page numbers therefore are understood to indicate references
to him; names without parentheses are characters who appear in person on
those pages without parentheses, are referred to on those pages in parentheses,
and appear as a hallucination in those pages bracketed. 
Animals and inanimate objects: Although this directory is limited to "human"
characters, the unusual nature of Ulysses dictates that (1) all dogs (like
Garryowen) and horses (like Throwaway) must necessarily be included, provided
that they have names, (2) that those inanimate objects that have speaking
roles in Circe be included—as hallucinations. 
Further references: For fuller information on most of the persons alluded
to and on many of the Joycean characters, the following are noted after the
entries. Capital letters refer to the specific volume when we feel that the


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