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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Anspaugh, Kelly. "Three mortal hour/i~s": female Gothic in Joyce's "The Dead." [James Joyce, Dubliners] in Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1994
Chaudhry-Fryer, Mamta. Power play: games in Joyce's Dubliners. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Delany, Paul. "Tailors of malt, hot, all round": homosocial consumption in "Dubliners." ["Counterparts" and "Two Gallants"] Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Dettmar, Kevin J.H. Reading Dubliners Again: A Lacanian Perspective. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Dilworth, Thomas. Not "too much noise": Joyce's "The Sisters" in Irish Catholic perspective - [James Joyce, Dubliners] in Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 1993
Doherty, Gerald. "Upright man/fallen woman: identification and desire in James Joyce's 'A Painful Case'" [Dubliners], Style, Spring, 2001
Finney, Michael. Why Gretta falls asleep: a postmodern sugarplum ["The Dead"]. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Giunta, Edvige. The Dead: I Morti [translating Joyce] Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Gordon, John. "Dubliners" and the art of losing. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Gottfried, Roy. Names and Naming in Joyce. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Haughey, Jim. Joyce and Trevor's Dubliners: the legacy of colonialism [William Trevor, "Two Gallants"]. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Hodgekins, Hope Howell. "Just a little...spiritual matter": Joyce's "Grace" and the modern Protestant gentleman. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Ingersoll, Earl G. The stigma of femininity in James Joyce's "Eveline" and "The Boarding House." [Dubliners] In Studies in Short Fiction, Fall, 1993
Kelly, Joseph. Joyce's marriage cycle. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Knowlton, Eloise. Showings forth: Dubliners, photography, and the rejection of realism. Mosaic, 01-MAR-05
Lowe-Evans, Mary. Who killed Mrs. Sinico? ["A Painful Case"]. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Mickalites, Carey. "Dubliners' IOU: the aesthetics of exchange in 'After the Race' and 'Two Gallants.'" Journal of Modern Literature, 01-JAN-07.
Mosley, David L. On the use of music in James Joyce's "The Dead," [Dubliners], by a professor of music, Oct. 2002
Murphy, Sean P. Passing boldly into that other world of holes: narrativity and subjectivity in James Joyce's "The Dead." Special "Dubliners" Number, in 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, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Osteen, Mark. "Dubliners." On the publication history of Dubliners. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Osteen, Mark. Dubliners: An Illustrated Edition. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Owens, Coilin A review of James Joyce's Painful Case (Univ. Press of Florida, 2008) [Dubliners]. Reviewed in Philological Quarterly, Summer-Fall, 2006 by Brian W. Shaffer.
Paige, Linda Rohrer. James Joyce's darkly colored portraits of "mother" in Dubliners - Special "Dubliners" Number, 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, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Rice, Thomas Jackson. Paradigm lost: "Grace" and the arrangement of Dubliners. ["Grace" and "The Sisters"] Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Swartzlander, Susan. James Joyce's "The Sisters": chalices and umbrellas, ptolemaic Memphis and Victorian Dublin - Special "Dubliners" Number, Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995
Vesala-Varttala, Tanja. A review of Sympathy and Joyce's 'Dubliners.' As reviewer Craig Monk points out, 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, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Wright, David G. Interactive stories in Dubliners. Studies in Short Fiction, Summer, 1995, Special Issue on Dubliners.
Anspaugh, Kelly. Blasting the bombardier: another look at Lewis, Joyce, and Woolf [Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf]. Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1994
Castle, Gregory. "Ousted possibilities: critical histories in James Joyce's Ulysses." In Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1993
Cucullu, Lois. "Remedial modernisms." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 1999
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, Simon Fraser Univ.
Eide, Marian. "The woman of the Ballyhoura Hills: James Joyce and the politics of creativity" - character in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Twentieth Century Literature, Wntr, 1998
Gunn, Daniel P. "Beware of imitations: advertisement as reflexive commentary in Ulysses." Twentieth Century Literature, Wntr, 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
Malouf, Michael. "Forging the Nation: James Joyce and the Celtic Tiger." On Ireland's changing conception of itself is reflected in the changing social value of the reputation of James Joyce. Jouvert 4,1 (1999)
Mepham, John. Essay on the stream of consciousness technique, used by such writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner. Literary Encyclopedia, 10/13/03
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.' [Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Studies in the Novel, Summer, 1995
Perloff, Marjorie. Article considers the modernist and postmodernist city in the works of James Joyce, Lyn Hejinian, and John Cage. "John Cage's Dublin, Lyn Hejinian's Leningrad: Poetic Cities as Cyberspaces," Electronic Poetry Center web site
Phillips, Brian. "Joyce's Visions." Extended essay notes that "Joyce, who never forgets the rude reality of his surroundings, nevertheless grapples toward it through a gray blizzard of intellection." Hudson Review, Summer 2004
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" The protagonist in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1997
Senn, Fritz. "The Joyce Industrial Evolution, According to one European Amateur" [on Joyce scholarship]. Journal of Modern Literature, Volume 22, 2
Sicari, Stephen. "Rereading Ulysses: 'Ithaca' and modernist allegory," in Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 1997
Snyder, Carey. "Various modernisms." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Spring 2000
Stearns, Thaine. "The 'woman of no appearance': James Joyce, Dora Marsden, and competitive pilfering," Twentieth Century Literature, Wntr, 2002
Tiessen, Paul. "Eisenstein, Joyce, and the Gender Politics of English Literary Modernism." On the influence of modernism on early cinema, and vice versa, in particular of James Joyce on Sergi Eisenstein. Kinema, Spring 1993
Tymoczko, Maria. The Irish Ulysses. A complete, book-length critical study of James Joyce, courtesy of the California Digital Library. "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." (Univ. of California Press, 1994)
Van Hulle, Dirk. An introductory article on James Joyce from the Literary Encyclopedia, 3/21/02. On A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914); Finnegans Wake (1939)
The James Joyce Scholars' Collection from the University 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).
Connor, Steven. "Some of My Best Friends Are Philosemites," on antisemitism, philosemitism, and the positive attraction towards Jewish history and identity in the work of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. From a panel on questions of Jewishness and Representation, 1995 (removed from http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/eng/staff/skcphil.htm)
Kershner, Brandon. A short article on early critical responses to James Joyce (removed from http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~kershner/crita.html)
Bell, Robert H. and Mark Patrick Hederman. "Bloomsday at 100: two reflections on James Joyce's legacy," Commonweal, May 21, 2004
A NY Times web page collects Times articles and reviews on James Joyce, dating back to the 1920s and extending to 1998.
An introduction to the publishing history of James Joyce's Ulysses, with pictures of rare documents, from the Univ. of Wisconsin Library
Web site of the James Joyce Center in Dublin, contains a brief biography and some photographic exhibits
Guide to Dubliners for reading groups, an introduction and discussion questions, from Penguin Press.
An introductory essay to James Joyce, from the Center for Book Culture (taken offline or moved)
About Joycean scholar Danis Rose's MaMaLuJo Project, a CDROM guide to Finnegans Wake. Newspaper article in the Irish Times (taken offline or moved)
Irish Times article about the purchase of the manuscript for the Circe chapter of Ulysses, Dec. 15, 2000 (taken offline or moved)
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