Bernard Benstock

An Analysis of Finnegans Wake

Joyce-again's Wake

Suheil B. Bushrui

Sir Desmond Cochrane

Centenary Essays in Honour of the Late Sir Desmond Cochrane

James Joyce, an International Perspective

The Undiscover'd Country

James Joyce

Despite brevity the analysis of O'Casey's personal and professional career is penetrating and affords a contemporary study of his plays as well as a careful reading of his autobiographical writings. The plots, characters, and action of his major plays are examined as are the playwright's distinctive use of settings and stage directions.

Sean O'Casey

Essays on Detective Fiction

Thomas F. Staley

Scholars of James Joyce offer critical analysis of his work Ulysses. Five essays interpret the character of the novel; four deal with the literary style of presentation, the last focuses on the problems of translation. Contributors: Robert R. Boyle, S.J.; David Hayman; Richard M. Kain; Darcy O’Brien; Weldon Thornton; Erwin R. Steinberg; William M. Schutte; Fritz Senn; H. Frew Waidner; and the editors.

Ten Essays

Approaches to Ulysses

Narrative Con/texts in Ulysses

Investigates narrative strategies in James Joyce's stories in relation to the changing contextual situations, both in the individual narratives and in the cumulative text, context serving as a portal of entry into the narrative(s). Benstock is the author of "Narrative Con/texts in 'Ulysses'".

Narrative Con/Texts in Dubliners

The Augmented Ninth

The harvest of a long and deep acquaintance with Joyce's fifteen enigmatic stories of Dublin life, Narrative Con/Texts in "Dubliners" creatively widens the definition of "context" to include networks of theme and symbol. By treating Dubliners as an expanding document of lives in the process of being lived and by paying attention to how the boundaries between stories break down, Benstock is able to notice how characters and situations come uncannily to resemble each other. There are several innovative approaches here (for example, the thorough inspection of the economic conditions of Joyce's Dublin, down to the halfpenny) as well as new twists on established ideas. Benstock attempts a global, integrated reading of the stories, substituting his more holistic "con/texts" for the current fashion of context-hunting. His is an old ambition (for full coverage) in a new, upbeat format.

Dubliners

Bernard Benstock

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