Authors: James Joyce, Daniel R. Schwarz
ISBN-13: 9780312080730, ISBN-10: 0312080735
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Date Published: December 1993
Edition: 1st Edition
You know an author is powerful when his name becomes a literary adjective; and "Joycean" is regularly applied to the countless writers James Joyce has influenced as one of the 20th century's greatest writers. His flowing, sometimes musical, often challenging prose -- most famously in the epic Ulysses -- has provoked and inspired readers.
Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared especially for students, that approach the work from several contemporary critical perspectives, such as gender criticism and cultural studies. Each essay is accompanied by an introduction (with bibliography) to the history, principles, and practice of its critical perspective. Every volume also surveys the biographical, historical, and critical contexts of the literary work and concludes with a glossary of critical terms. New editions reprint cultural documents that contextualize the literary works and feature essays that show how critical perspectives can be combined.
About the Series | ||
About This Volume | ||
Pt. 1 | "The Dead": The Complete Text | |
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts | 3 | |
The Complete Text | 21 | |
Pt. 2 | "The Dead": A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism | |
A Critical History of "The Dead" | 63 | |
Psychoanalytic Criticism and "The Dead" | 85 | |
What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism? | 85 | |
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography | 97 | |
A Psychoanalytic Perspective: Gabriel Conroy's Psyche: Character as Concept in Joyce's "The Dead" | 102 | |
Reader-Response Criticism and "The Dead" | 125 | |
What Is Reader-Response Criticism? | 125 | |
Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography | 133 | |
A Reader-Response Perspective: "A Symbol of Something": Interpretive Vertigo in "The Dead" | 137 | |
The New Historicism and "The Dead" | 150 | |
What Is the New Historicism? | 150 | |
The New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography | 159 | |
A New Historicist Perspective: Living History in "The Dead" | 163 | |
Feminist Criticism and "The Dead" | 178 | |
What Is Feminist Criticism? | 178 | |
Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography | 185 | |
A Feminist Perspective: Not the Girl She Was at All: Women in "The Dead" | 190 | |
Deconstruction and "The Dead" | 206 | |
What Is Deconstruction? | 206 | |
Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography | 215 | |
A Deconstructionist Perspective: For Whom the Snow Taps: Style and Repetition in "The Dead" | 219 | |
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms | 235 | |
About the Contributors | 247 |