Introducing James Joyce

Required and Suggested Reading

Prior to arrival, all students should read James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann, published 1982 by Oxford University Press.

Required Primary Texts:
James Joyce, Dubliners, the Viking Critical Edition edited by Robert Scholes and A. Walton Litz
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the Viking Critical Edition edited by Chester G. Anderson
James Joyce, Ulysses, the Vintage Books edition edited by Hans Gabler et al.
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, the Penguin edition

Required Secondary Texts:
Don Gifford and Robert Seidman, Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses, University of California Press, 1988
Harry Blamires, The New Bloomsday Book, Routledge, 1996
Roland McHugh, Annotations to Finnegans Wake, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991
Ian Gunn and Clive Hart, James Joyce's Dublin, Thames and Hudson, 2004

N.B.: Machine-readable copies of Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses can be downloaded without charge from the Internet at digital.library.upenn.edu.

Suggested Reading:
A wide variety of books on Joyce will be available at the library's reserve desk. In the meantime, those planning to attend might consider looking at the following:

J. S. Atherton, The Books at the Wake
Joseph Brooker, Joyce's Critics
Vincent Cheng, Joyce, Race, and Empire
Thomas E. Connolly, Joyce's Portrait, Criticisms and Critiques
Richard Ellmann, Ulysses on the Liffey
Stuart Gilbert, James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study
Adaline Glasheen, A Third Census of Finnegans Wake
S. L. Goldberg, The Classical Temper
Clive Hart, James Joyce's Dubliners: Critical Essays
Clive Hart and David Hayman, James Joyce's Ulysses
Linda Herr, Joyce and Popular Culture
Hugh Kenner, Joyce's Voices
Hugh Kenner, Ulysses
Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era
Sebastian Knowles, The Dublin Helix
Karen Lawrence, The Odyssey of Style in Joyce's Ulysses
Harry Levin, James Joyce
Brenda Maddox, Nora
John McCourt, Years of Bloom
Margot Norris, Joyce's Web
Mary Power and Ulrich Schneider, New Perspectives on Dubliners
John Henry Raleigh, The Chronicle of Leopold and Molly Bloom
Bonnie Kime Scott, Joyce's Women
Stanley Sultan, The Argument of Ulysses

And, for anyone interested in where the seminar's director is most recently coming from: John Gordon, Joyce and Reality: The Empirical Strikes Back can be ordered from Amazon, www.amazon.com.

Two (of many) Joyce-oriented web pages worth checking out can be found at robotwisdom.com/jaj/ and www.themodernword.com/joyce/. Both have links to other web sites.