James Joyce
Introductions
Introductions to a literary pioneer
James Joyce is by many considered the most influential writer of the 20th century. His works, from the early "Dubliners" to the semi-biographical "Portrait" to the groundbreaking "Ulysses" and the challenging "Finnegans Wake," have forever altered the literary world.
Below is a curated list of introductory books about his life and work that can inspire, challenge, and intrigue.
Joyce's Enduring Influence
James Joyce revolutionized literature with his experimental storytelling techniques, influencing a plethora of writers like Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett. His works continue to shape modern literature, with themes of identity, sexuality, and human relationships resonating deeply with readers and writers. Joyce's legacy as a literary innovator is unquestionable, with his works remaining vital study subjects and sources of inspiration.
Bibliography for James Joyce —
Introductions
| Author | Title | Type |
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| Adams, Robert Martin. | James Joyce: Common Sense and Beyond. New York (Random House) 1966. | Amazon |
| Adams, Robert Martin. | AfterJoyce: Studies in Fiction after Ulysses. New York (Oxford University Press) 1977. | Amazon |
| Almeida, Hermione de. | Byron and Joyce Through Homer: Don Juan and Ulysses. New York (Columbia University Press) 1981. | Amazon |
| Armand, Louis (Ed.). | Joycemedia: James Joyce, Hypermedia, and Textual Genetics. Syracuse (Syracuse University Press) 2006. | Amazon |
| Armand, Louis. | Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology. Prague (Karolinum/Charles University Press) 2003. | Amazon |
| Armstrong, Alison / Digby, John. | The Joyce of Cooking: Food & Drink from James Joyce's Dublin. Barrytown, NY (Station Hill Press) 2010. | Amazon |
| Attridge, Derek / Ferrer, Daniel (Eds.). | Post-Structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French. (Cambridge University Press), 1985. | Amazon |
| Attridge, Derek / Howes, Marjorie (Eds.). | Semicolonial Joyce. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2000. | Amazon |
| Attridge, Derek. | The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce. 2nd edition Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2004. | Amazon |
| Attridge, Derek. | Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2000. | Amazon |
| Attridge, Derek. | "Judging Joyce," in: Modernism / modernity 6.3 (September 1999), p. 15-32. | Amazon |
| Aubert, Jacques. | The Aesthetics of James Joyce. Baltimore (Johns Hopkins University Press) 1992. | Book |
| Balsamo, Gian. | Joyce's Messianism: Dante, Negative Existence, and the Messianic Self. Columbia (University of South Carolina Press) 2004. | Amazon |
| Balsamo, Gian. | Rituals of Literature: Joyce, Dante, Aquinas, and the Tradition of Christian Epics. Lewisburg (Bucknell University Press) 2004. | Book |
| Barta, Peter I. | Bely, Joyce, and Döblin: Peripatetics in the City Novel. Gainesville (University Press of Florida) 1996. | Amazon |
| Bauerle, Ruth H. | Picking up Airs: Hearing the Music in Joyce's Text. Urbana (Illinois University Press) 199 | Amazon |
| Bauerle, Ruth H. | The James Joyce Songbook. New York (Garland) 1982. | Amazon |
| Beja, Morris / Norris, David (Eds.). | Joyce in the Hibernian Metropolis: Essays. Columbus (Ohio State University Press) 1996. | Amazon |
| Ben-Merre, Diana A. / Murphy, Maureen (Eds.). | James Joyce and His Contemporaries. Westport, Conn. (Greenwood) 1989. | Amazon |
| Benstock, Bernard (Ed.). | Critical Essays on James Joyce. Boston (G.K. Hall) 1985. | Amazon |
| Benstock, Bernard (Ed.). | The Seventh of Joyce. Bloomington (Indiana University Press) 1982. | Amazon |
| Benstock, Bernard / Bushrui, Suheil Badi (Eds.). | James Joyce: An International Perspective: Centenary Essays in Honour of the late Sir Desmond Cochrane [with a message from Samuel Beckett and a foreword by Richard Ellmann]. Gerrards Cross (Smythe) 1982. | Amazon |
| Benstock, Bernard. | NARRATIVE CON/TXT ULYSSES. (University of Illinois Press) 1991. | Amazon |
| Benstock, Bernard. | James Joyce: The Undiscovered Country. Dublin (Gill & Macmillan) 1977. | Book |
| Benstock, Shari / Benstock, Bernard. | Who's He When He's at Home? A James Joyce Directory. Urbana (University of Illinois Press) 1980. | Amazon |
| Berrone, Louis. | James Joyce in Padua. New York (Random) 1977. | Book |
| Black, Martha Fodaski. | Shaw & Joyce: 'The Last Word in Stolentelling'. Gainesville (University Press of Florida) 1995. | Amazon |
| Bloom, Harold (Ed.). | James Joyce (Modern Critical Views). New York (Chelsea House Pub.) 2003. | Amazon |
| Bohan, P.D. | Reading Joyce and Joyce Reading: James Joyce's Stylistic Development from 1904 to 1922. M.Litt. diss. (UC Dublin) 1998. | Article |
| Boheemen, Christine van. | Joyce, Modernity, and Its Mediation. Amsterdam (Rodopi) 1989. | Book |
| Boheemen, Christine van. | "The Trauma of Irishness or, Literature as Material Cultural Memory in Joyce," in: Configurations 7.2 (Spring 1999), p.247-266. | Article |
| Bolt, Sydney. | A Preface to James Joyce. London (Routledge) 2000. | Amazon |
| Bonheim, Helmut. | Joyce's Benefictions. Berkeley (University of California Press) 1964. | Book |
| Booker, M. Keith. | "Ulysses", Capitalism, and Colonialism: Reading Joyce after the Cold War. Westport, Conneticut (Greenwood Press) 2000 (= Contributions to the Study of World Literature 98). | Book |
| Bosinelli, Rosa Maria Bollettieri / Ruggieri, Franca (Eds.). | Joyce Studies in Italy 7: The Benstock Library as a Mirror of Joyce. Roma (Bulzoni) 2001. | Book |
| Bosinelli, Rosa Maria Bollettieri et al. | Myriadminded Man: Jottings on Joyce. Bologna (Cooperativa Lib. U Ed. Bologna) 1986. | Book |
| Bowen, Zack / Carens, James F. (Eds.). | A Companion to Joyce Studies. Westport, Conneticut (Greenwood Press) 1984. | Book |
| Bowen, Zack. | Musical Allusions in the Works of James Joyce: Early Poetry Through "Ulysses." Albany (State University of New York Press) 1974. | Book |
| Bowen, Zack. | Bloom's Old Sweet Song: Essays on Joyce and Music. Gainesville (University of Florida Press) 1995. | Book |
| Brannigan, John / Ward, Geoff / Wolfreys, Julian (Eds.). | Joyce: Text, Culture, Politics. Basingstoke (Macmillan) 1998. | Book |
| Brannon, Julie Sloan. | "Joyce.com," in: South Carolina Review 32.1 (Fall 1999), p.74-80. | Article |
| Brannon, Julie Sloan. | Who Reads Ulysses? The Common Reader and the Rhetoric of the Joyce Wars. New York (Routledge) 2003. | Amazon |
| Brivic, Sheldon. | Joyce the Creator. Winsconsin (Winsconsin University Press) 1985. | Book |
| Brivic, Sheldon. | Joyce between Freud and Jung. Port Washington (Kennikat) 1980. | Book |
| Brivic, Sheldon. | The Veil of Signs: Joyce, Lacan, and Perception. Urbana (University of Illinois Press) 1991. | Book |
| Brooker, Joseph. | Joyce's Critics: Transitions in Reading and Culture. Madison (University of Wisconsin Press) 2004. | Book |
| Brooker, M. Keith. | Ulysses, Capitalism and Colonialism. Connecticut (Greenwood Press) 2000. | Book |
| Brown, Donald. | "Enjoy(c)ing Cultures," in: Poetics Today 22.3 (Fall 2001), p.671-689. | Article |
| Brown, Homer O. | James Joyce's Early Fiction: The Biography of a Form. Cleveland (The Press of CaseWestern Reserve University) 1973. | Book |
| Brown, Richard / McGuire, Patrick. | Reading Joycean Temporalities. Bern (Peter Lang) 2002. | Book |
| Brown, Richard. | James Joyce and Sexuality. Basingstoke (Macmillan) 1992. | Book |
| Brown, Richard. | James Joyce: A Post-Culturalist Perspective. London (Macmillan) 1992. | Book |
| Brown, Richard. | "Marilyn Monroe Reading Ulysses: Goddess or Postcultural Cyborg?," in: Joyce and Popular Culture. Ed. R. Brandon Kershner. Gainesville (University of Florida Press) 1996, p.170-179. | Article |
| Brown, Richard. | "Joycean Hypercriticism," in: Images of Joyce. Eds. Clive Hart / C.George Sandulescu / Bonnie K. Scott / Fritz Senn. 2 Vols. Gerrards Cross (Colin Smythe) 1998, p.105-110. | Article |
| Brown, Terence (Ed.). | The Letters of James Joyce, Volume One. London (Faber) 1966. | Book |
| Brown, Terence (Ed.). | The Letters of James Joyce, Volume Two. London (Faber) 1966. | Book |
| Brown, Terence (Ed.). | The Letters of James Joyce, Volume Three. London (Faber) 1966. | Book |
| Brown, Terence. | Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-2001. London (Harper Collins) 2001. | Book |
| Brown, Terence. | The Life of James Joyce. London (Macmillan) 1999. | Book |
| Budgen, Frank. | James Joyce and the Making of 'Ulysses', and Other Writings. Oxford (Oxford University Press) 1972. | Book |
| Bufano, Ignazio (Ed.). | Joyce in Rome: The Genesis of Ulysses. Rome (Bulzoni Editore) 1998. | Book |
| Bulson, Eric | The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce. Cambridge University Press (2006). 1st edition. | Amazon |
| Burgess, Anthony. | Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader. Galileo Publishers (2019). | Amazon |
| Burgess, Anthony. | Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce. London (Deutsch) 1973. | Amazon |
| Burgess, Anthony. | Re Joyce. London (Deutsch) 1965. | Book |
| Burkdall, Thomas. | Joycean Frames: Film and The Fiction of James Joyce. New York (Routledge) 2001. | Book |
| Burns, Christy L. | Gestural Politics: Stereotype and Parody in Joyce. Albany (State University of New York Press) 2000. | Book |
| Carey, Phyllis / Jewinski, Ed (Eds.). | Re--Joyce'n Beckett. New York (Fordham University Press) 1992. | Book |
| Chace, William M. (Ed.). | Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs (Prentice-Hall) 1974. | Book |
| Cheng, Vincent / Devlin, Kimberly / Norris, Margot (Eds.). | Joycean Cultures/Culturing Joyces. Newark (University of Delaware Press) 1998. | Book |
| Cheng, Vincent / Martin, Timothy. | Joyce in Context. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 1992. | Book |
| Cheng, Vincent J. | Joyce, Race, and Empire. (Cambridge University Press) 1995. | Book |
| Connolly, Thomas E. | The Personal Library of James Joyce: A Descriptive Bibliography. Buffalo (University of Buffalo Press) 1955. | Book |
| Cope, Jackson. | Joyce's cities: Archaeologies of the Soul. Baltimore (Johns Hopkins University Press) 1981. | Book |
| Cotter, David. | Joyce and the Perverse Ideal. London (Routledge) 2003. | Book |
| Crivelli, Renzo S. | "Joyce and Trieste: From the Joyce Festival to the Trieste Joyce School," in: Joyce Studies Annual 12 (Summer 2001), p.111-123. | Article |
| Culleton, Claire A. | Names and naming in Joyce. Madison (University of Wisconsin Press) 1994. | Book |
| Culleton, Claire. | Joyce and the G-Men: J Edgar Hoover's Manipulation of Modernism. New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2004. | Book |
| Dahl, Liisa. | Linguistic Features of the Stream-of-Consciousness Techniques of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Eugene O'Neill. Turku (Turun Yliopisto) 1970. | Book |
| Deane, Seamus. | "Joyce and Stephen: the Provincial Intellectual," in: Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880-1980. London (Faber) 1985, p.75-91. | Article |
| Deane, Seamus. | "Joyce and Nationalism," in: Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880-1980. London (Faber) 1985, 92-107. | Article |
| Deming, Robert H. (Ed.). | James Joyce: The Critical Heritage. 2 vols. London (Routledge) 1970. | Book |
| Dettmar, Kevin J.H. | "The Joyce That Beckett Built," in: JJQ 35.4 (Summer 1998), p.605-619. | Article |
| Dettmar, Kevin J.H. | The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism: Reading against the Grain. Madison (University of Wisconsin Press) 1996. | Book |
| Doherty, Gerald. | Dubliners' Dozen: the Games Narrators Play. Madison (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press) 2004. | Book |
| Doyle, Paul A. | A Concordance of the Collected Poems of James Joyce. New York (Scarecrow) 1966. | Book |
| Duff, Charles. | James Joyce and the Plain Reader. London (Harmondsworth) 1932. | Book |
| Dunleavy, Janet Egleson (Ed.). | Re-viewing Classics of Joyce Criticism. Urbana (University of Illinois Press) 1991. | Book |
| Eco, Umberto. | Talking of Joyce. Dublin (University College Dublin Press) 1998. | Amazon |
| Eco, Umberto. | The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce. Trans. Ellen Esrock. Cambridge (Harvard University Press) 1989. | Book |
| Ehrlich, Heyward (Ed.). | Light Rays: James Joyce and Modernism. New York (New Horizon) 1984. | Book |
| Ellmann, Richard. | The Consciousness of Joyce. Toronto (Oxford University Press) 1977. | Book |
| Epstein, Edmund L. | A Starchamber Quiry: A James Joyce Centennial Volume, 1882-1982. London (Methuen) 1982. | Book |
| Erzgraber, Willi. | James Joyce: Oral and Written Discourse as Mirrored in Experimental Narrative Art. New York (Peter Lang) 2002. | Book |
| Fairhall, James. | James Joyce and the Question of History. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 1993. | Book |
| Ferris, Kathleen. | James Joyce and the Burden of Disease. Lexington (Kentucky University Press) 1995. | Book |
| Frehner, Ruth / Zeller, Ursula (Eds.) | 'A Collideorscape of Joyce': Festschrift for Fritz Senn. Dublin (Lilliput Press) 1998. | Book |
| Frehner, Ruth / Zeller, Ursula / Vogel, Hannes (Eds.) | James Joyce: "Gedacht durch meine Augen"/Through through my eyes. Basel (Schwabe Verlag) 2000. | Book |
| Friedman, Susan Stanford (Ed.). | Joyce: The Return of the Repressed. Ithaca (Cornell University Press) 1993. | Book |
| Froula, Christine. | Modernism's Body: Sex, Culture and Joyce. New York (Columbia University Press) 1996. | Book |
| Füger, Wilhelm | "'Ideareal Funtasies': Modalitäten des Wirklichkeiten in James Joyces"Ulysses"," in: Möglichkeitssinn: Phantasie und Phantastik in der Erzählliteratur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eds. Gerhard Bauer / Robert Stockhammer, Wiesbaden (Westdeutscher Verlag) 2000, p.149-6 | Article |
| Gabler, Hans Walter. | "Towards an Electronic Edition of James Joyce's "Ulysses"," in: Literary and Linguistic Computing 15.1 (2000), p.115-20. | Article |
| Gaiser, Gottlieb. | International Perspectives on James Joyce. Troy, New York (Whitston) 1986. | Book |
| Gibson, Andrew / Steven Morrison (Eds.). | European Joyce Studies 12: "Joyce's Wandering Rocks". Amsterdam (Rodopi) 2003. | Book |
| Gibson, Andrew. | Joyce's Revenge: History, Politics, and Aesthetics in Ulysses. Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2002. | Amazon |
| Gilbert, Stuart / Ellmann, Richard. | Letters. Vols. I, II, III. New York (Viking) 1966. | Book |
| Gillespie, Gerald. | Proust, Mann, Joyce in the the Modernist Context. Washington DC (Catholic University of America Press) 2003. | Book |
| Gillespie, Michael Patrick / Fargnoli, A. Nicholas. | James Joyce A to Z. The Essential Reference to the Life and Work. Oxford (Oxford University Press) 1995.. | Amazon |
| Gillespie, Michael Patrick. | Joyce through the Ages: A Non-linear View. Gainesville (Florida University Press) 2000. | Book |
| Gillespie, Michael Patrick. | European Joyce Studies 11: James Joyce and the Fabrication of an Irish Identity. Amsterdam (Rodopi) 2001. | Book |
| Gillespie, Michael Patrick. | Reading the Book of Himself: Narrative Strategies in the Works of James Joyce. Columbus (Ohio State University Press) 1989. | Book |
| Gillespie, Michael Patrick. | James Joyce's Trieste Library: A Catalogue. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center) 1986. | Book |
| Gillespie, Michael Patrick. | Inverted Volumes Improperly Arranged: James Joyce and His Trieste Library. Ann Arbor (University of Michigan Research Press) 1980. | Book |
| Goldman, Arnold. | The Joyce Paradox: Form and Freedom in His Fiction. Evanston (Northwestern University Press). | Book |
| Gordon, John. | James Joyce's Metapmorphoses. Dublin (Gill & Macmillan) 198 | Book |
| Gordon, John. | Joyce and Reality: The Empirical Strikes Back. Syracuse, NY (Syracuse University Press) 2004. | Book |
| Groden, Michael (General Editor). | The James Joyce Archive. 63 folio vols. (Garland Publishing) 1977-78. | Book |
| Groden, Michael. | "A Textual and Publishing History," in: A Companion to Joyce Studies. Eds. Zack Bowen and James F. Carens. Westport, Conneticut (Greenwood) 1984, p.71-128. | Article |
| Gunning, Farrell. | Bloomsday. Dublin (DBA Publications) 1988. | Book |
| Halper, Nathan. | Studies in Joyce. Epping (Bowker) 1983. | Book |
| Halper, Nathan. | The Early James Joyce. New York/London (Columbia University Press) 1973. | Book |
| Hastings, Patrick. | The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses. Baltimore (Hohns Hopkins University Press) 2022. | Amazon |
| Hayman, David / Slote, Sam (Eds.). | Genetic Studies in Joyce. Amsterdam (Rodopi) 1995 (= European Studies 5). | Book |
| Henke, Suzette A. | James Joyce and the Politics of Desire. London (Routledge) 1990. | Book |
| Henke, Suzette A. / Unkeless, Elaine (Eds.). | Women in Joyce. Urbana (University of Illinois Press) 1982. | Book |
| Herr, Cheryl. | Joyce's Anatomy of Culture. Urbana (University of Illinois Press) 1986. | Book |
| Herring, Phillip F. | Joyce's Uncertainty Principle. Princeton (Princeton University Press) 1987. | Book |
| Hodgart, Matthew. | James Joyce: A Student's Guide. London (Routledge & Kegan Paul) 1978. | Book |
| Humphrey, Robert. | Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel. Berkeley (University of California Press) 1954. | Book |
| Igoe, Vivien. | "Early Joyceans in Dublin," in: Joyce Studies Annual 12 (Summer 2001), p.81-99. | Article |
| Jackson, Selwyn. | The Poems of James Joyce and the Use of Poems in His Novels. Frankfurt (Lang) 1978. | Book |
| Jacquet, Claude. | James Joyce: Scribble, Genèse du Texte. Paris (Lettres Moderne) 1988 | Book |
| Johnsen, William A. | Violence and Modernism: Ibsen, Joyce, and Woolf. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. | Book |
| Jones, Ellen Carol / Morris Beja (Eds.). | Twenty-First Joyce. Gainesville (University of Florida Press) 2004. | Book |
| Jones, William. | James Joyce and the Common Reader. Norman (University of Oklahoma Press) 1955. | Book |
| Jung, C.G. | "'Ulysses': Ein Monolog," in: Europäische Revue (September 1932), p.547-568 | Article |
| Kain, Richard / Magalaner, Marvin. | Joyce, the Man, the Work, and the Reputation. New York (New York University Press) 1956. | Book |
| Kelly, Joseph. | Our Joyce: From Outcast to Icon. Austin (University of Texas Press) 1998. | Book |
| Kenner, Hugh. | A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers. New York (Alfred Knopf) 1983, repr. Baltimore (Johns Hopkins University Press) 1989. | Book |
| Kenner, Hugh. | Joyce's Voices. London (Faber & Faber) 1978. Dalkey Archive Press (January 1, 2007). | Amazon |
| Kershner, R. Brandon (Ed.). | European Joyce Studies 15: Cultural Studies of James Joyce. Amsterdam (Rodopi) 2003. | Book |
| Kershner, R. Brandon / Bowen, Zack (Eds.). | Joyce and Popular Culture. Gainesville (University Press of Florida) 1996. | Book |
| Knowles, Sebastian. | The Dublin Helix: the Life of Language. Gainesville (University Press of Florida) 2001. | Book |
| Knowlton, Eloise. | Joyceans, and the Rhetoric of Citation. Gainesville (University Press of Florida) 1998. | Book |
| Laman, Barbara. | James Joyce and German Theory. Madison (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press) 2004. | Book |
| Lanters, Jose. | Missed Understandings: A Study of Stage Adaptations of the Works of James Joyce. Amsterdam (Rodopi) 1988. | Book |
| Latham, Sean. | "A Portrait of the Snob: James Joyce and the Anxieties of Cultural Capital," in: Modern Fiction Studies 47.4 (Winter 2001), p.774-799. | Article |
| Lawrence, Karen. | "Building the Foundation: Women in the IJJF," in: Joyce Studies Annual 12 (Summer 2001), p.163-171. | Article |
| Leavis, F.R. | "James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word," in: The Importance of Scrutiny: Selections from Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review, 1932-1948. Ed. Eric Bentley. New York (New York UP) 1948 (= Rep. from Scrutiny 2 (1933). | Article |
| Lennon, Joseph. | Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History. Syracuse (Syracuse University Press) 2004. | Book |
| Leonard, Garry. | Advertising and Commodity Culture in Joyce. Gainesville (University Press of Florida) 1998. | Book |
| Lerm Hayes, Christa-Maria. | Joyce in Art. Dublin (Lilliput Press) 2004. | Book |
| Lernout, Geert / Wim Wan Mierlo. | The Reception of James Joyce in Europe (2. vols.). London (Thoemmes Continuum) 2004. | Book |
| Lernout, Geert. | The French Joyce. Ann Arbor (University of Michigan Press) 1992. | Book |
| Levin, Harry. | James Joyce: A Critical Introduction. 1941. (New Directions) 1960. | Amazon |
| Levin, Harry. | James Joyce: A Critical Introduction. New Directions (1960). Rev. and augm.edition. | Amazon |
| Levitt, Morton P. | James Joyce and Modernism: Beyond Dublin. Lewiston (Edwin Mellen Press) 2000. | Book |
| Litz, A. Walton. | The Art of James Joyce: Method and Design in "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake". London (Oxford University Press) 1961. Rev. ed. London (Oxford University Press) 1964. | Book |
| Lowe-Evans, Mary. | Crimes Against Fecundity: Joyce and Population Control. Syracuse (Syracuse University Press) 1989. | Book |
| Lyons, J.B. | James Joyce and Medicine. Dublin (Dolmen) 1973. | Book |
| Magalaner, Marvin. | Time of Apprenticeship: The Fiction of Young James Joyce. London (Abelard-Schuman) 1959. | Book |
| Mahaffy, Vicki. | Reauthorizing Joyce. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 1988. repr. Gainesville (Florida University Press) 1995. | |
| Manganiello, Dominic. | Joyce's Politics. (Routledge) 1980. | Book |
| Martin, Augustine (Ed.). | James Joyce: The Artist and the Labyrinth. London (Ryan) 1990. | Book |
| Martin, Timothy. | Joyce and Wagner: A Study of Influence. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 1991. | Book |
| McCabe, Bernard (Ed.). | James Joyce: Reflections of Ireland. New York (Little, Brown) 1993. | Book |
| McCabe, Colin. | James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press (2022). | Amazon |
| McCabe, Colin. | James Joyce: New Perspectives. Brighton (Harvester Wheatsheaf) 1982. | Book |
| McCabe, Colin. | James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word. London (Macmillan) 1979, 1981. London (Palgrave) (2)2003. | Book |
| McCormack, W.J. / Stead, Alistair (Eds.). | James Joyce and Modern Literature. London (Routledge & Kegan Paul) 1982 (= Papers of University of Leeds conference, April 1982). | Book |
| McCourt, John. | The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904-1920. Madison (University of Wisconsin Press) 2000. | Book |
| McCourt, John. | James Joyce and Nora: Passionate Exiles. London (Orion Publishing Group, Ltd.) 2000. | Book |
| McCrory, K. / Unterecker, John. | Yeats, Joyce and Beckett: New Light on Three Modern Irish Writers. Lewisburg (Bucknell University Press) 1976. | Book |
| Mullin, Katherine. | James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2003. | Book |
| Murphy, Sean P. | James Joyce and Victims: Reading the Logic of Exclusion. Madison (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press) 2003. | Book |
| Nelson, James G. | Elkin Mathews: Publisher to Yeats, Joyce, Pound. Madison (University of Wisconsin Press) 1989. | Book |
| Norris, David / Flint, Carl (Eds.). | Joyce for Beginners. Cambridge (Icons Books) 1994. | Book |
| Norris, David. | "The 'unhappy mania' and Mr. Bloom's Cigar: Homosexuality in the Works of James Joyce," in: JJQ 31 (Spring 1994), p. | Article |
| O'Brien, Darcy. | The Conscience of James Joyce. Princeton (Princeton University Press) 1968. | Book |
| O'Hehir, Brendan. | A Gaelic Lexicon for "Finnegans Wake", and Glossary for Joyce's Other Works. Berkeley: (University of California Press) 1967. | Book |
| O'Hehir, Brendan. | A Classical Lexicon for "Finnegans Wake": A Glossary of the Greek and Latin in the Major Works of Joyce including "Finnegans Wake", The Poems, "Dubliners", "Stephen Hero", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", "Exiles", and "Ulysses". Berkeley (University of California Press) 1977. | Book |
| Rabaté, Jean-Michel | Joyce upon the Void: The Genesis of Doubt. New York (St. Martin's Press) 1991. | Book |
| Rabaté, Jean-Michel | "Joyce the Egoist," in: Modernism/modernity 4.3 (Summer 1997), p.45-65. | Article |
| Rabaté, Jean-Michel | James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2001. | Book |
| Rabaté, Jean-Michel (Ed.) | Palgrave Advances in James Joyce Studies. New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2004. | Book |
| Rademacher, Jörg W. | James Joyce. München (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag) 2004 | Book |
| Rathjen, Friedhelm. | Die Grüne Tinte. Kleiner Leitfaden durch die irische literatur. Scheessel (Edition ReJoyce) 2004 | Book |
| Reizbaum, Marilyn. | James Joyce's Judaic Other. Stanford (Stanford University Press) 199 | Book |
| Ress, Laura Jane. | Tender Consciousness: Sentimental Sensibility in the Emerging Artist - 'Sterne, Yeats, Joyce, and Proust. New York (Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.) 2002. | Book |
| Reynolds, Mary T. (Ed.). | James Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs (Prentice Hall) 1993. | Book |
| Rice, Thomas Jackson. | "Subtle Reflections of/upon Joyce in/by Borges," in: Journal of Modern Literature 24.1 (Fall 2000), p.47-62. | Article |
| Riquelme, John Paul. | Teller and Tale in Joyce's Fiction: Oscillating Perspectives. Baltimore (Johns Hopkins University Press) 1983. | Book |
| Rogers, Michael. | "James Joyce A to Z," in: Library Journal 120 (June 15 1995), p.60. | Article |
| Rose, Danis. | The Textual Diaries of James Joyce. Dublin (Lilliput Press) 1995. | Book |
| Roughley, Alan. | James Joyce and Critical Theory: An Introduction. Ann Arbor (University of Michigan Press) 1991. | Amazon |
| Ryan, John (Ed.). | A Bash in the Tunnel: James Joyce by the Irish. Brighton (Clifton Books) 1970. | Book |
| Sandelescu, George. | The Joycean Monologue: A Study of Character and and Monologue in Joyce's "Ulysses" against the Background of Literary Tradition. Colchester 1979. | Book |
| Sandelescu, George. | The Language of the Devil. Gerrards Cross (Colin Smythe) 1987. | Book |
| Schlossman, Beryl. | "Polyphony and Memory in James Joyce's Fiction," in: Modern Fiction Studies 46.4 (Winter 2000), p.984-988. | Article |
| Scholes, Robert. | "James Joyce, Irish Poet," in: JJQ 2 (1965), p.255-70. | Article |
| Scott, Bonnie Kime. | Joyce and Feminism. Bloomington (Indiana University Press) 1984. | Book |
| Seidel, Michael | James Joyce: A Short Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell (2002). | Amazon |
| Senn, Fritz. | Inductive Scrutinies: Focus on Joyce. Dublin (Lilliput Press) 1995. | Book |
| Senn, Fritz. | "The Joyce Industrial Evolution, According to One European Amateur," in: Journal of Modern Literature 22.2 (Winter 1998-1999), p.191-97. | Article |
| Spoo, Robert. | James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus's Nightmare. Oxford (Oxford University Pres) 1994. | Book |
| Staley, Thomas F. | "Adventures in the Joyce Trade," in: Joyce Studies Annual 12 (Summer 2001), p.100-110. | Article |
| Staley, Thomas F. (Ed.). | Joyce Studies Annual 2003. Austin (University of Texas Press) 2003. | Book |
| Sternlieb, Lisa Ruth. | "Molly Bloom: Acting Natural," in: ELH 65.3 (Fall 1998), p.757-778. | Article |
| Strathen, Paul. | James Joyce in 90 Minutes. Chicago (Ivan R. Dee) 2005. | Amazon |
| Streit, Wolfgang. | Joyce/Foucault: Sexual Confessions. Ann Arbor (University of Michigan Press) 2004. | Book |
| Stubbings, Diane. | Anglo-Irish Modernism and the Material: From Yeats to Joyce. New York (Palgrave) 2001. | Book |
| Sultan, Stanley. | Joyce's Metamorphosis. Gainesville (University of Florida Press) 2001. | Book |
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