James Joyce (1882-1941)
A selective list of online literary criticism for James Joyce, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that comply with MLA guidelines.
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introduction & lighter reading
Bell, Robert H. and Mark Patrick Hederman. "Bloomsday at 100: two reflections on James Joyce's legacy," Commonweal 21 May 2004.
An introduction to the publishing history of James Joyce's Ulysses, with pictures of rare documents, from the U of Wisconsin Library.
Web site of the James Joyce Center in Dublin, contains a brief biography and some photographic exhibits.
Van Hulle, Dirk. An introductory article on James Joyce from the Literary Encyclopedia 21 March 2002. On A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914); Finnegans Wake (1939) [subscription service].
Mepham, John. Essay on the stream of consciousness technique, used by such writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner. Literary Encyclopedia 13 Oct. 2003 [subscription service].
Dubliners
Anspaugh, Kelly. "Three mortal hour/i~s": female Gothic in Joyce's "The Dead." Studies in Short Fiction Winter, 1994.
Chaudhry-Fryer, Mamta. "Power play: games in Joyce's Dubliners." Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Delany, Paul. "'Tailors of malt, hot, all round': homosocial consumption in "Dubliners" ["Counterparts" and "Two Gallants"]. Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Dettmar, Kevin J.H. "Reading Dubliners Again: A Lacanian Perspective." Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Dilworth, Thomas. "Not 'too much noise': Joyce's 'The Sisters' in Irish Catholic perspective." Twentieth Century Literature Spring 1993.
Doherty, Gerald. "Upright man/fallen woman: identification and desire in James Joyce's 'A Painful Case.'" Style Spring 2001.
Finney, Michael. "Why Gretta falls asleep: a postmodern sugarplum" ["The Dead"]. Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Giunta, Edvige. "'The Dead': I Morti" [translating Joyce] Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Gordon, John. "Dubliners and the art of losing." Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Gottfried, Roy. "Names and Naming in Joyce." Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Haughey, Jim. "Joyce and Trevor's Dubliners: the legacy of colonialism" [William Trevor, "Two Gallants"]. Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Hodgekins, Hope Howell. "'Just a little...spiritual matter': Joyce's 'Grace' and the modern Protestant gentleman." Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Ingersoll, Earl G. "The stigma of femininity in James Joyce's 'Eveline' and 'The Boarding House.'" [Dubliners] Studies in Short Fiction Fall, 1993.
Kelly, Joseph. "Joyce's marriage cycle." Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Knowlton, Eloise. "Showings forth: Dubliners, photography, and the rejection of realism." Mosaic 2005.
Lowe-Evans, Mary. "Who killed Mrs. Sinico?" ["A Painful Case"]. Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Mickalites, Carey. "Dubliners' IOU: the aesthetics of exchange in 'After the Race' and 'Two Gallants.'" Journal of Modern Literature 2007.
(removed) Mosley, David L.
Murphy, Sean P. "Passing boldly into that other world of holes: narrativity and subjectivity in James Joyce's 'The Dead.'" Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Norris, Margot. "Blind streets and seeing houses: Araby's dim glass revisited." Noting that "Joyce's 'Araby' not only draws attention to its conspicuous poetic language: it performatively offers the beauty of its art as compensation to the thematized frustrations of the story," Norris traces the story's compensatory enactment. Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Osteen, Mark. "Dubliners." On the publication history of Dubliners. Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Osteen, Mark. "Dubliners: An Illustrated Edition." On the textual history of Dubliners. Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Owens, Coilin. A review of James Joyce's Painful Case (UP of Florida 2008). Philological Quarterly Summer-Fall 2006, reviewed by Brian W. Shaffer.
Paige, Linda Rohrer. "James Joyce's darkly colored portraits of 'mother' in Dubliners." Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Pearce, Sandra Manoogian. "Edna O'Brien's 'Lantern Slides' and Joyce's 'The Dead': shadows of a bygone era." Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Rice, Thomas Jackson. "Paradigm lost: 'Grace' and the arrangement of Dubliners" [and "The Sisters"]. Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Swartzlander, Susan. "James Joyce's 'The Sisters': chalices and umbrellas, ptolemaic Memphis and Victorian Dublin." Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Vesala-Varttala, Tanja. A review of of Sympathy and Joyce's 'Dubliners'. Reviewer Craig Monk points out that Dubliners is "a most apt choice for a text against which to read ideas of sympathy. The complexity in the narration of these stories problematizes Joyce's engagement with sympathy." Yearbook of English Studies 2002.
Wagner, C. Roland. "A birth announcement in 'The Dead.'" Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
Wright, David G. "Interactive stories in Dubliners." Studies in Short Fiction Summer 1995.
A guide to Dubliners for reading groups, with an introduction and discussion questions. Penguin Press.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake
Anspaugh, Kelly. "Blasting the bombardier: another look at Lewis, Joyce, and Woolf" [and Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf]. Twentieth Century Literature Fall 1994.
Castle, Gregory. "Ousted possibilities: critical histories in James Joyce's Ulysses." Twentieth Century Literature Fall 1993.
Delany, 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 Delany.
Eide, Marian. "The woman of the Ballyhoura Hills: James Joyce and the politics of creativity." On a character in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Twentieth Century Literature Winter 1998.
Gunn, Daniel P. "Beware of imitations: advertisement as reflexive commentary in Ulysses." Twentieth Century Literature Winter 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.
O'Neill, William. "Myth and identity in Joyce's fiction: disentangling the image." Twentieth Century Literature Fall 1994.
Osteen, Mark. "The treasure-house of language: managing symbolic economies in Joyce's 'Portrait.'" Studies in the Novel Summer 1995 [subscription service].
Perloff, Marjorie. "John Cage's Dublin, Lyn Hejinian's Leningrad: Poetic Cities as Cyberspaces." Perloff considers the modernist and postmodernist city in the works of James Joyce, Lyn Hejinian, and John Cage. Electronic Poetry Center.
Phillips, Brian. "Joyce's Visions." Phillips notes that "Joyce, who never forgets the rude reality of his surroundings, nevertheless grapples toward it through a gray blizzard of intellection." Hudson Review 57 (Summer 2004) [first page of article only].
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." On the protagonist in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Twentieth Century Literature Fall 1997.
Senn, Fritz. "The Joyce Industrial Evolution, According to one European Amateur." On Joyce scholarship. Journal of Modern Literature 22, 2 [first page of article only, blurred].
Sicari, Stephen. "Rereading Ulysses: 'Ithaca' and modernist allegory." Twentieth Century Literature Fall 1997.
Stearns, Thaine. "The 'woman of no appearance': James Joyce, Dora Marsden, and competitive pilfering." Twentieth Century Literature Winter 2002.
Tymoczko, Maria. The Irish Ulysses. "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," says the publisher. A complete, book-length critical study of James Joyce, courtesy of the California Digital Library (Univ. of California Press 1994).
"The James Joyce Scholars' Collection," from the Univ. 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).
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