Joyce

Lauren Baker Dr. Rice Graduate Research and Writing 6 Feb. 2013 Major Works Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: The Viking Press, 1968. Print. Joyce’s first novel follows the religious and philosophical growth of Stephen Dedalus- a fictional alter-ego of Joyce. It was first published in 1916 and is written in the modernist technique, stream of consciousness. ---. Critical Writings. Eds. Mason Ellsworth and Richard Ellmann. New York: The Viking Press, 1959. Print. This collection of critical writings by Joyce spans from 1896 to 1937. It is edited by Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann, author of the famous biography: James Joyce. The collection includes essays, lectures, book reviews, newspaper articles, letters to editors and poems which each evaluate some topic. ---. Dubliners. Eds. Robert Scholes and A. Walton Litz. New York: The Viking Press, 1971. Print. Dubliners is Joyce’s highly acclaimed collection of short stories. It includes the title story “Dubliners” which introduces readers to characters find in the play Exiles. It is the most easily accessible of his fiction writings, only briefly using the stream of consciousness technique. It follows the lives of the average citizens of Dublin in the early 20th century. ---. Exiles. New York: The Viking Press, 1951. Print. Joyce’s only play, drawn from characters in the short story “Dubliners.” It is considered by many critics to be Joyce’s worst work, and was not majorly produced for the stage until the 1970s. This edition includes notes by the author and an introduction by Padraic Colum. ---. Finnegan’s Wake. New York: The Viking Press, 1959. Print. Joyce’s final novel, largely considered to be his most significant work. It was originally published in 1939, shortly before his death. The novel uses stream of consciousness, portmanteau words, puns, and non-traditional language and grammar making it very difficult to read. It was written over seventeen years, from 1922 to 1939. ---. Letters of James Joyce. Ed. Stuart Gilbert. New York: The Viking Press, 1957. This is a collection of letters with an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and a chronology by Richard Ellman. It includes letters written by Joyce between 1901 and 1940. It is suggested that these letters be read in conjunction with Ellman’s biography James Joyce. ---. Ulysses. Eds. Hans Walter Gabler, Wolfhard Stepe and Claus Melchior. New York: The Viking Press, 1957. Print. Joyce’s second novel in which he continues to hone the stream of consciousness technique. It was originally serialized in an American journal from 1918-1920, before being published in novel form in 1922. It includes the character Stephen Dedalus, among new characters, and parallels the story of The Odyssey. Relevant Works Bowker, Gordon. James Joyce: A New Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Print. This biography employs new information and research, as well as a “reconsideration” of the James Joyce biographies of Richard Ellmann and Herbert Gorman. The book has been highly praised in both The New York Times and The London Tribune. Burges, Anthony. Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce. London: Andre Deutsch, 1973. Print. This book serves as an introduction to the language used by Joyce. Its focus is on Ulysses, Joyce’s second novel. It is written by Anthony Burgess, author of A Clock Work Orange, a novel also known by its experimentation with language. The preface states the book examines two major questions. “How does Joyce use language, and why does he use it in that way or those ways?” Cixous, Héléne. The Exile of James Joyce. Trans. Sally A. J. Purcell. New York: David Lewis, Inc., 1972. Print. This biography is often compared to Ellmann’s due to its comparable size. At over 700 pages, the book goes into great detail on Joyce’s life. The main argument of the book is that Joyce’s fiction represents specific episodes in his life, which he actually lived. She calls the relationship between Joyce and his art “consubstantial.” The book suggests that the fiction can only be understood as inherently autobiographical. Costello, Peter. James Joyce: The Years of Growth, 1882-1915. New York: Pantheon Press, 1994. Print. An in-depth investigation of Joyce’s early years in Ireland. This book offers many biographical additions to Joyce scholarship. At the time it was published, it offered several new facts which are now accepted in Joycean studies. It offers little literary criticism, and focuses on unearthing details of Joyce’s youth. Gorman, Herbert. James Joyce. New York: H. Wolff, 1948. Print. Gorman’s biography was one of the first about Joyce, written and published during the last years of Joyce’s life. It includes illustrations, photographs, and scans of manuscripts by Joyce. While some of the information is considered dated and inaccurate by some scholars, it is still quoted often. Ellman, Richard. James Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Print. Considered to be one of the most important biographies of the 20th century, this is considered to be the definitive biography of James Joyce. First published in 1959, it won the National Book Award for nonfiction. Richard Ellmann is considered to be an expert on Irish Literature, and wrote important works about Yeats and Wilde as well. Henke, Suzette. James Joyce and the Politics of Desire. New York and London: Routledge, 1990. Print. This work re-evaluates Joyce’s work primarily through a feminist perspective. It also incorporates psychoanalytic and lacanian criticism. The work poses two main questions. First, “Can Joyce be reclaimed for feminism?” and “How does his writing challenge received ideas about gender roles?” Kenner, Hugh. Dublin’s Joyce. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1956. Print. Written by Canadian Hugh Kenner, this book addresses all Joyce’s major works. It works to refute the idea that Joyce’s style was for mere shock-value, and introduces the idea of “double-writing.” Quoted often, Kenner’s work is not a biography, but an in-depth literary study from a New Critics perspective. Kiberd, Delcan. Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce’s Masterpiece. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009. Ebook. This work concentrates on Ulysses. Its argument, much like Hugh Kenner’s, is that Ulysses is not meant for shock-value or deeply scholarly interpretations. Kiberd is a renowned professor of Irish literature, and has written extensively on Joyce and other Irish authors. Scott, Bonnie Kime. Joyce and Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984. Print. This book contains biographical and historical information about Joyce, along with a feminist analysis of three female characters. The book examines Emma Cleary from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Molly Bloom from Ulysses, and Issy from Finnegans Wake. Baker 6