This particular means of encouraging informal online presentations and conversations about Joyce and his work will no doubt grow in the coming decades. And it offers additional evidence that Joyce’s work has had a widespread effect on international culture not only in the 20th century, but also in the 21st. We can safely say there is no question that his significance will only continue to grow.
Suggested Reading
Armand, Louis. “JJ/JLG.” Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce and Cinema. Ed. John McCourt. Cork: Cork University Press, 2010 (139-148). Armand discusses the effect of Joyce’s work on such filmmakers as Jean-Luc Godard and Sergei Eisenstein.
Attridge, Derek. Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. This work explores how Joyce’s texts challenge and influence the way we think about such topics as women’s language, theory, and the power of literature.
Beja, Morris. James Joyce: A Literary Life. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992. This compact biography offers a summary of the important moments of Joyce’s life and relates them to the development and production of his literary works, along with the effects they produced on his reputation and fame.
Beja, Morris. “A World without Ulysses.” A joyceful of talkatalka. Eds. Raffaella Baccolini, Delia Chiaro, Chris Rundle, and Sam Whitsitt. Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2011. 19-27. Published in a volume dedicated to Rosa Maria Bollettieri Bosinelli, this essay discusses the influence of Joyce’s work on other writers, as well as on popular culture.
Bishop, John. Joyce’s Book of the Dark: ‘Finnegans Wake.’ Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. In his detailed and comprehensive study of Finnegans Wake, Bishop explores the work as it delves into the experience of human consciousness in the night, in sleep, and in dream, with a particular focus on the ensuing effects of its language and its intellectual scope.
Bowen, Zack. Musical Allusions in the Works of James Joyce. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1974. Bowen begins by tracing musical allusions in Joyce’s poetry, Exiles, Dubliners, Stephen Hero, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. But inevitably the major portion of this study is devoted to Ulysses, whose musical references and allusions he examines episode by episode from “Telemachus” to “Penelope.”
Brivic, Sheldon. Joyce the Creator. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. Using the metaphor of God’s mind, Brivic examines how Joyce projects himself into his texts through the multiplicity of voices he creates.
Brooker, Joseph. “Reception History.” The Cambridge Companion to ‘Ulysses’. Ed. Sean Latham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. This article begins with the production and publication history of Ulysses, including its obstacles and controversies. It then continues with a discussion of the book’s various editions, and the critical response to its evolving appreciation and understanding.
Brown, Richard. James Joyce and Sexuality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Brown looks at Joyce’s views on marriage, on feminist dimensions in his work, and on the influence of modern perspectives on sexual divisions and difference.
Campbell, Joseph, and Henry Morton Robinson. A Skeleton Key to ‘Finnegans Wake.’ New York: The Viking Press, 1969. First published in 1944, only five years after Joyce’s death, the Skeleton Key offers a systematic and detailed synopsis of each chapter of Finnegans Wake, presented in a clear and approachable way that makes the work accessible to readers.
Cheng, Vincent J. Joyce, Race, and Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Born and raised in Ireland under British colonial rule, Joyce’s awareness of the oppressions of colonialism work their way into his fictions in multiple and significant ways, as Cheng explores in this work.
Cheng, Vincent John. Shakespeare and Joyce: A Study of ‘Finnegans Wake.’ University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984. The focus of this study is the influence of Shakespeare’s work on Finnegans Wake, with details of Shakespearean motifs and allusions in the novel.
Crispi, Luca. Joyce’s Creative Process and the Construction of Characters in ‘Ulysses.’ Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. This study explores how the characters in Ulysses were created and developed. Crispi explores notes, manuscripts, and other archival materials to demonstrate Joyce’s strategies.
Davison, Neil R. James Joyce, ‘Ulysses’, and the Construction of Jewish Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Given the significance of the Jewish Leopold Bloom as the protagonist of Ulysses, the question of Joyce’s perception and representation of Jews in his literary works deserves the careful and complex exploration it receives in this book.
Devlin, Kimberly J. James Joyce’s ‘Fraudstuff”. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. Devlin explores how fraud is exhibited in the thoughts, actions, and suppressed emotions and desires of characters throughout Joyce’s works.
Devlin, Kimberly J. Wandering and Return in ‘Finnegans Wake’. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Invoking psychoanalytic and feminist theories, among others, this study demonstrates how Joyce draws on his earlier works to explore issues of identity, selfhood, and gender in Finnegans Wake.
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. New and Revised Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. Considered one of the great literary biographies of the 20th century, this work covers effectively every aspect of Joyce’s life and supports its information with a wealth of material, including letters, documents, photographs, conversations, and detailed notes.
Feshbach, Sidney. “’Fallen on His Feet in Buenos Ayres’: Frank in ‘Eveline’.” James Joyce Quarterly 20.2 (Winter 1983): 223-27. With only a brief note, this piece disputes earlier constructions of the characters in Joyce’s short story “Eveline” by looking at the issue of Irish emigration.
Fordham, Finn. Lots of Fun at ‘Finnegans Wake’: Unravelling Universals. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. The question of how Joyce constructed Finnegans Wake is explored in this work by comparing different drafts of particular passages in the text that show how they changed, what Joyce retained and what he replaced, and how this process produced some of the work’s intriguing complexities.
Gifford, Don, with Robert J. Seidman. ‘Ulysses’ Annotated: Notes for James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses. Revised and Expanded Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. This 637-page volume offers an encyclopedia of references in Ulysses, with descriptions and explanations of place names, historical and cultural figures, foreign phrases, slang terms, and much more. The study is considered an indispensable guide to Joyce’s novel.
Gillespie, Michael Patrick. Reading the Book of Himself: Narrative Strategies in the Works of James Joyce. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989. This exploration of how the texts in Joyce’s works prompt and gesture to readers contains chapters on nearly all of Joyce’s works, including Stephen Hero and his play Exiles.
Gordon, John. Finnegans Wake: A Plot Summary. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1986. Rather than focusing on the experimentalism of Finnegans Wake, this study turns attention back to aspects of its realism, to time, place, characters, and events, by systematically looking at what happens in each chapter of the four Books in the work.
Groden, Michael. ‘Ulysses’ in Progress. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977. This early study of the “prepublication” history of Ulysses—Joyce’s writing process during the years of its production both in serial and in published forms—examines notebooks, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts and proof to elucidate Joyce’s composition strategies.
Henke, Suzette. Joyce and the Politics of Desire. New York: Routledge, 1990. Henke presents a feminist assessment of Joyce’s works using psychoanalytic theory with particular reference to the work of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Julia Kristeva.
Henke, Suzette and Elaine Unkeless, editors. Women in Joyce. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982. This collection of essays looks at the diversity and vitality of women in Joye’s works from a femi
nist perspective, covering a range from Stephen Hero to Finnegans Wake.
Herr, Cheryl. Joyce’s Anatomy of Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Herr examines the influence of Irish popular culture in Joyce’s works, including newspapers, theatrical performances in pantomime and music halls, and religious sermons.
Herring, Phillip F. Joyce’s Uncertainty Principle. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. This study examines how and why Joyce deliberately introduced ambiguity in many places in his work, making it difficult to determine whether the questions raised can be resolved or are destined to remain a mystery.
Joyce, James. Collected Poems. New York: The Viking Press, 1969. This slim volume contains Joyce’s early poems published under the title of “Chamber Music,” the poems he titled “Pomes Penyeach,” and the single poem, “Ecce Puer,” commemorating the birth of his grandson and the death of his father.
Joyce, James. The Critical Writings of James Joyce, edited by Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989. Fifty-seven items written by Joyce are collected in this volume, including essays, letters to editors, lectures, discussions of such literary figures as Shakespeare, William Blake, and Oscar Wilde, and satirical poems.
Joyce, James. Dubliners. Ed. Margot Norris. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. The text of Dubliners in this book was edited by Hans Walter Gabler with Walter Hettche and begins with an “Introduction” by Gabler. The book also offers maps, photographs, musical scores, posters, and other materials, as well as a collection of eight critical essays by Joyce scholars on various stories in the volume.
Joyce, James. Exiles. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., 2002. Exiles is not the only play Joyce wrote, but it is the only one that has survived. It is thought to reflect some of Joyce’s own experiences and those of his family during their early years abroad in Europe.
Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. New York: Penguin Books, 1967. The volume contains all 628 pages of Finnegans Wake, but no other commentary or other materials.
James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Text, Criticism, and Notes. Edited by Chester G. Anderson. New York: Penguin Books, 1977. The text of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is supplemented by over 60 pages of “Explanatory Notes” at the end of this volume. It also offers a set of “Related Texts by Joyce,” an array of critical commentary with essays from Joyce’s own time, as well as from contemporary critics.
Joyce, James. Stephen Hero. Ed. Theodore Spencer. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1963. This edition of Joyce’s early version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man succeeds one first published in 1944, and offers a “Foreword” by John J. Slocum and Herbert Cahoon, as well as an “Introduction” by Theodore Spencer.
Joyce, James. Ulysses, edited by Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior. New York: Vintage Books, 1986. Generally referred to as “The Gabler Edition” of Ulysses, this work begins with a preface by Richard Ellmann and a foreword by Hans Walter Gabler, who also offers a brief “Note on the Text.” The “Afterword” by Michael Groden discusses the challenges of the editing process of Ulysses, as well as the controversy that erupted around the publication of this volume.
Kenner, Hugh. “Molly’s Masterstroke.” James Joyce Quarterly 10, 1 (Fall 1972): 19-28. Kenner’s essay offers an intriguing and arguably controversial discussion of how Molly Bloom may have dealt with her affair with Hugh “Blazes” Boylan on June 16, 1904, in Ulysses.
Kenner, Hugh. Dublin’s Joyce. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Ranging from the poems of “Chamber Music” to FinnegansWake, this study by one of the most distinguished critics of Joyce’s works explores them as his responses to the culture and transformations of his native city.
Kershner, R. B. Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Popular literature plays a prominent role in Joyce’s writings, with many references to newspaper articles, romance novels, periodicals, children’s adventure stories, and much more. Kershner discusses the significance of this wealth of material read by ordinary people in Joyce’s stories and novels, using the work of the literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin to explore its complicated functions.
Killeen, Terence. ‘Ulysses’ Unbound: A Reader’s Companion to James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses.’ Bray, Co. Wicklow: Wordwell Ltd., 2004. The main focus of this work is to make Joyce’s Ulysses more accessible by offering a commentary on each of the 18 episodes of the work, including a summary of events, discussion of the Homeric parallels and the style in which they are written, notes and a select glossary. In addition, there are brief sections on Joyce’s life, the production of Ulysses, an afterword, a diagram of the schema, and a bibliography.
Lawrence, Karen. The Odyssey of Style in ‘Ulysses’. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Ulysses is characterized by dramatic stylistic changes that transform the work and inevitably frustrate the reader’s expectations. Lawrence tracks how these “protean transformations” gradually change narrative norms to parody and undermine the very concept of a narrative voice by looking at Joyce’s most extreme stylistic experiments in the novel.
Martin, Timothy. Joyce and Wagner: A Study of Influence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. This work offers an analysis of Joyce’s familiarity with, and interest in, the works of Richard Wagner, and their effect on Joyce’s writing, which displays a large number of specific allusions to the composer’s works.
McCarthy, Patrick A. The Riddles of ‘Finnegans Wake. Cranbury, N.J., Associated University Presses, Inc., 1980. McCarthy calls Finnegans Wake “a giant riddle,” but he also points to and explores specific riddles that are introduced and discussed in the work, such as the ones posed in the “Quiz” chapter, Shem’s riddle “when is a man not a man,” the prankquean’s riddle, Izod’s heliotrope riddle, and others.
McHugh, Roland. Annotations to ‘Finnegans Wake’. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. This major guidebook to Finnegans Wake allows readers to look up words in the work that puzzle them: foreign words, the names of persons, places, things, titles, literary allusions, myths, and much more. The book’s pages correspond to the pages of the text of Finnegans Wake, and words are placed in the same order as in the Wake so that readers can easily look them up.
Mitchell, Breon. “A Portrait and the Bildungsroman Tradition.” Approaches to Joyce’s ‘Portrait’. Eds. Thomas F. Staley and Bernard Benstock. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1976. Breon examines Portrait in light of the conventions of adolescent and artistic development displayed in the Bildungsroman, pointing out that the narrative innovations in this work, with its maturing style, enrich the genre itself.
Mullin, Katherine. “’Don’t cry for me, Argentina’: ‘Eveline” and the seductions of emigration propaganda.” Semicolonial Joyce. Eds. Derek Attridge and Marjorie Howes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 172-200. Irish emigration is discussed in this essay as a fraught topic of propaganda in Irish history in the late 19th and early 20th century, which Joyce’s story ‘Eveline’ evokes and resists amid the pressures and anxieties of the young protagonist’s difficult decision.
Nadel, Ira B. Joyce and the Jews: Culture and Texts. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. Nadel’s wide-ranging study of Joyce’s affinity with Jews of his acquaintance and Judaic history and culture looks at a wide range of scholarly material to offer chapters on Jewish identity, typology, and Jewish cities as they relate to Joyce’s work.
Norris, Margot. Virgin and Veteran Readings of ‘Ulysses’. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Imagining what it might be like to read Ulysses for the first time without any knowledge of the work allows Norris to uncover the considerable suspense and surprises that the text offers in its hidden narratives and subplots.
Norris, Margot. Ulysses. Cork: Cork University Press, 2004. The title refers to the 1967 Joseph Strick film of Joyce’s Ulysses, and the book details the process o
f making the movie, along with the challenges involved in translating the text into a cinematic medium.
Parrinder, Patrick. James Joyce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. This survey of Joyce’s work is committed to addressing all of his books, including his poetry, Stephen Hero, Exiles, Giacomo Joyce, as well as Dubliners, Portrait, Ulysses, and the Wake, while relating the texts to other writers and intellectuals.
Rose, Danis, and John O’Hanlon. Understanding ‘Finnegans Wake’: A Guide to the Narrative of James Joyce’s Masterpiece. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1982. This systematic journey through the text of Finnegans Wake uses a variety of strategies: narrating what is going on, summarizing, paraphrasing, interpreting, citing criticism, with the goal of making the work accessible and less daunting.
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