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Exiles, 1918

Ulysses, 1922

Pomes Penyeach, 1927

Finnegans Wake, 1939

Stephen Hero, 1944 (posthumous)

Biography

Bradley, Bruce. James, joyce’s Schooldays. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982.

Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Kenner, Hugh. Dublin’s Joyce. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1956.

Criticism

Attridge, Derek, ed. The Cambridge Companion to James joyce. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Benstock, Bernard. Narrative Con/Texts in “Dubliners.” Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Bidwell, Bruce, and Linda Heffer, eds. The Joycean Way: A Topographic Guide to “Dubliners” and “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

Bloom, Harold, ed. James Joyces “Dubliners.”New York: Chelsea House, 1988.

Buttigieg, Joseph A. A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1987.

Dettmar, Kevin J. H. The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism: Reading Against the Grain. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.

Jackson, John Wyse, and Bernard McGinley, eds. James Joyce’s “Dubliners”: An Illustrated Edition with Annotations. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.

Joyce, James. Critical Writings. Edited by Ellsworth Mason and Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking, 1959.

————. Stephen Hero: Part of the First Draft of “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. ” Revised edition. Edited by Theodore Spencer. London : Cape, 1969.

Kershner, R. Brandon. Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature: Chronicles of Disorder. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Norris, Margot. Suspicious Readings of Joyce’s “Dubliners. ” Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.

Scholes, Robert, and Richard M. Kain, eds. The Workshop of Daedalus: James Joyce and the Raw Materials for “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. ” Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1965.

Seidel, Michael. James Joyce: A Short Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

Torchiana, Donald T. Backgrounds for Joyce’s “Dubliners. ” Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1986.

Wollaeger, Mark A., ed. James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”: A Casebook. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

a

And he applies his mind to obscure arts (Latin); said of Dædalus, who, in a Greek myth, made wings for himself and his son, Icarus, to escape the labyrinth of the Minotaur.

b

Monocle.

c

Candy.

d

From the song “Lily Dale”; in this bowdlerized version, the word “grave” in the second line is replaced with “place.”

e

Waterproof sheet used in cases of bedwetting.

f

Strange.

g

Dance tune.

h

Stephen’s childish pronunciation of “auntie.”

i

Cupboard or cabinet.

j

Lozenge.

k

Teachers.

l

His age- and grade-level cohort in the school.

m

Football shin-guards in his locker.

n

Here, not a post-secondary institution but a private boys’ preparatory school.

o

Clongowes Wood College, which still operates today, is housed in buildings originally constructed as a castle.

p

To inform; to “fink” or “rat” on someone.

q

Chief administrator of the college.

r

Long, black gown worn by the Jesuits.

s

Irish patriot and friend of Irish republican Wolfe Tone (see footnote on p. 162) who sought shelter in the castle in 1794 when wanted by the British authorities.

t

Barrier, such as a fence, set within a ditch.

u

Religious group-in this case, the Jesuits.

v

Abbey 100 miles northwest of London; Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1475-1530) died there.

w

Open cesspool on the school grounds.

x

Chestnut used in a children’s game, in which one chestnut was swung by an attached string against another until one was destroyed.

y

Protective metal guard in front of a fireplace.

z

Obsequious favorite; we would say “teacher’s pet.”

aa

Hotel in downtown Dublin.

ab

The houses (families) York and Lancaster were the opponents in the Wars of the

Roses (1455-1485).

ac

Fit of anger.

ad

Early schooling in spelling, arithmetic, geography, history, Latin, and writing.

ae

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