A selective list of open access literary criticism on James Joyce, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Anspaugh, Kelly. Blasting the bombardier: another look at Lewis, Joyce, and Woolf [Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf]. Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1994
Anspaugh, Kelly. "Three mortal hour/i~s": female Gothic in Joyce's "The Dead." [James Joyce, Dubliners] in Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1994
Castle, Gregory. "Ousted possibilities: critical histories in James Joyce's Ulysses." In Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1993
Connor, Steven. "Some of My Best Friends Are Philosemites," on antisemitism, philosemitism, and the positive attraction towards Jewish history and identity in the work of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. From a panel on questions of Jewishness and Representation, 1995 (removed from http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/eng/staff/skcphil.htm)
Delaney, Paul. "'A Would-be-dirty Mind': D.H. Lawrence as an Enemy of Joyce." On differences in attitudes of D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce. Web published by Professor Delaney, Simon Fraser Univ.
Dilworth, Thomas. Not "too much noise": Joyce's "The Sisters" in Irish Catholic perspective - [James Joyce, Dubliners] in Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 1993
Doherty, Gerald. "Upright man/fallen woman: identification and desire in James Joyce's 'A Painful Case'" [Dubliners], Style, Spring, 2001
Eide, Marian. "The woman of the Ballyhoura Hills: James Joyce and the politics of creativity" - character in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Twentieth Century Literature, Wntr, 1998
Gunn, Daniel P. "Beware of imitations: advertisement as reflexive commentary in Ulysses." Twentieth Century Literature, Wntr, 1996
Heaney, Liam F. "Freud, Jung and Joyce: conscious connections," on the influence of psychology and the stream of consciousness technique. Contemporary Review, July, 1994
Haughey, Jim. Joyce and Trevor's Dubliners: the legacy of colonialism - James Joyce and William Trevor - Special "Dubliners" Number, Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995
Ingersoll, Earl G. The stigma of femininity in James Joyce's "Eveline" and "The Boarding House." [Dubliners] In Studies in Short Fiction, Fall, 1993
Kershner, Brandon. A short article on early critical responses to James Joyce (removed from http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~kershner/crita.html)
Malouf, Michael. "Forging the Nation: James Joyce and the Celtic Tiger." On Ireland's changing conception of itself is reflected in the changing social value of the reputation of James Joyce. Jouvert 4,1 (1999)
Mepham, John. Essay on the stream of consciousness technique, used by such writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner. Literary Encyclopedia, 10/13/03
Mosley, David L. On the use of music in James Joyce's "The Dead," [Dubliners], by a professor of music, Oct. 2002
Murphy, Sean P. Passing boldly into that other world of holes: narrativity and subjectivity in James Joyce's "The Dead." Special "Dubliners" Number, in Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995
O'Neill, William. Myth and identity in Joyce's fiction: disentangling the image - James Joyce, in Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1994
Osteen, Mark. "Dubliners." On the publication history of Dubliners. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995
Paige, Linda Rohrer. James Joyce's darkly colored portraits of "mother" in Dubliners - Special "Dubliners" Number, Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995
Perloff, Marjorie. Article considers the modernist and postmodernist city in the works of James Joyce, Lyn Hejinian, and John Cage. "John Cage's Dublin, Lyn Hejinian's Leningrad: Poetic Cities as Cyberspaces," Electronic Poetry Center web site
Phillips, Brian. "Joyce's Visions." Extended essay notes that "Joyce, who never forgets the rude reality of his surroundings, nevertheless grapples toward it through a gray blizzard of intellection." Hudson Review, Summer 2004
Scholes, Robert. An essay on modernism and why James Joyce is the central modernist author (removed)
Scholes, Robert. "In the Brothel of Modernism: Picasso and Joyce." Writes Dr. Scholes, "My argument, then, is that modernism was never a level playing field but was a gendered movement, driven by the anxieties and ambivalences of male artists and writers--anxieties and ambivalences that worked to bring the figure of the prostitute to the center of the modernist stage."
Schwarze, Tracey. "Silencing Stephen: colonial pathologies in Victorian Dublin" The protagonist in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1997
Senn, Fritz. "The Joyce Industrial Evolution, According to one European Amateur" [on James Joyce scholarship]. Journal of Modern Literature, Volume 22, Number 2
Sicari, Stephen. "Rereading Ulysses: 'Ithaca' and modernist allegory," in Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1997
Stearns, Thaine. "The 'woman of no appearance': James Joyce, Dora Marsden, and competitive pilfering," Twentieth Century Literature, Wntr, 2002
Swartzlander, Susan. James Joyce's "The Sisters": chalices and umbrellas, ptolemaic Memphis and Victorian Dublin - Special "Dubliners" Number, Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995
Tiessen, Paul. "Eisenstein, Joyce, and the Gender Politics of English Literary Modernism." On the influence of modernism on early cinema, and vice versa, in particular of James Joyce on Sergi Eisenstein. Kinema, Spring 1993
Tymoczko, Maria. The Irish Ulysses. A complete, book-length critical study of James Joyce, courtesy of the California Digital Library. "In a radical new reading of Ulysses, Maria Tymoczko argues that previous scholarship has distorted our understanding of James Joyce's epic novel by focusing on its English and continental literary sources alone." (Univ. of California Press, 1994)
Van Hulle, Dirk. An introductory article on James Joyce from the Literary Encyclopedia, 3/21/02. On A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914); Finnegans Wake (1939)
The James Joyce Scholars' Collection from the University of Wisconsin's Digital Collection. This web site provides links to the full text of 16 books of literary analysis on James Joyce: Benstock, Bernard Joyce-again's wake : an analysis of Finnegans wake (1965); Benstock, Shari and Benstock, Bernard Who's he when he's at home: a James Joyce directory (1980); Bonheim, Helmut A lexicon of the German in Finnegans wake (1967); Hart, Clive Structure and motif in Finnegans wake (1962); Joyce, James A first-draft version of Finnegans wake (1963); Hayman, David The "Wake" in transit (1990); McHugh, Roland The sigla of Finnegans wake (1976); Norris, Margot The decentered universe of Finnegans wake: a structuralist analysis (1976); O Hehir, Brendan A Gaelic lexicon for Finnegans wake, and glossary for Joyce's other works (1967); Peake, Charles James Joyce, the citizen and the artist (1977)and The workshop of Daedalus (1965); Budgen, Frank James Joyce and the making of 'Ulysses', and other writings (1972); Mink, Louis O. A Finnegans wake gazetteer (1978); O Hehir, Brendan and Dillon, John M. A classical lexicon for Finnegans wake (1977); Lawrence, Karen The odyssey of style in Ulysses (1981); Glasheen, Adaline Third census of Finnegans wake (1977).
Mahaffey, Vicki. An introductory essay to James Joyce, from the Center for Book Culture
Bell, Robert H. and Mark Patrick Hederman. "Bloomsday at 100: two reflections on James Joyce's legacy," Commonweal, May 21, 2004
A NY Times web page collects Times articles and reviews on James Joyce, dating back to the 1920s and extending to 1998. (Free but requires a one-time registration
From Time Magazine's "Top 100 People of the 20th Century," an essay on James Joyce
About Joycean scholar Danis Rose's MaMaLuJo Project, a CDROM guide to Finnegans Wake. Newspaper article in the Irish Times
Irish Times article about the purchase of the manuscript for the Circe chapter of Ulysses, Dec. 15, 2000
A brief biography of James Joyce from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
Biography of James Joyce, with information about Parnell and Irish Nationalism, from Professor Brandon Kershner (removed from http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~kershner/port.html)
An introduction to the publishing history of James Joyce's Ulysses, with pictures of rare documents, from the Univ. of Wisconsin Library
Web site of the James Joyce Center in Dublin, contains a brief biography and some photographic exhibits
Search Findarticles.com for reviews of scholarly books and additional scholarly articles on James Joyce
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