Schwaber, Paul. The Cast of Characters: A Reading of ‘Ulysses’. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. As the title suggests, this study of Ulysses focuses on the characters in the work, both major and minor, but with particular attention to their inner lives—an approach enriched by Schwaber’s experience as a psychoanalyst.
Scott, Bonnie Kime, editor. New Alliances in Joyce Studies. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1988. Scott here offers a wide-ranging collection of essays collected in groups with such titles as “Recent Theory Applied to Joyce,” “Analogies from Art,” “Feminine Revisions,” “Joyce and Other Women Writers,” and “Textual Workshops,” among others.
Senn, Fritz. Joyce’s Dislocutions: Essays on Reading and Translation, edited by John Paul Riquelme. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. In this important volume, Riquelme collects thirteen essays written by Fritz Senn over a period of more than a decade.
Sherry, Vincent. James Joyce: ‘Ulysses’. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. This book is part of what is described as a “textbook series,” designed to serve as a guide to first-time readers of Ulysses, while nonetheless illuminating new perspectives for seasoned readers.
Shloss, Carol Loeb. Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. This biography of Joyce’s daughter supplements what is known about her life by considering materials and information that might have constructed a much fuller portrait of Lucia Joyce if they had been preserved.
Spinks, Lee. James Joyce: A Critical Guide. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. A comprehensive and detailed study, this work offers a chapter on Joyce’s life, commentary on each of the works from Chamber Music to Finnegans Wake, and a section on various critical approaches to the works, including feminist, psychoanalytic, and post-structuralist studies.
About the Author
Margot Norris, Chancellor’s Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine prior to her retirement in 2011, specializes in early twentieth century literature, with a particular focus on the work of James Joyce. She served as president of the International James Joyce Foundation from 2004 to 2008, and is the author of numerous publications on Joyce. Her books include The Decentered Universe of “Finnegans Wake” (1976), Joyce’s Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism (1992), and Virgin and Veteran Readings of “Ulysses” (2011).
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