Scope: James Joyce was a British poet, essayist, and dramatist. He was a part of the literary life in Paris during the 1920’s. His novels are psychological and study the inner thoughts and motivations of the characters. His novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, and Ulysses are his most well known works.  CIRCULATING BOOKS  Books of James Joyce’s works are listed in our on-line catalog under “Joyce, James," and under individual titles.

Books written by and about James Joyce have the call number(s) 

PR6019.09F5566 1986 

Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

Arnold, Bruce. The Scandal of Ulysses. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.

Bishop, John. Joyce’s Book of the Dark, Finnegans Wake. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.

Brown, Richard. James Joyce. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.

Brunsdale, Mitzi. James Joyce: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Maxwell
Macmillan International, 1993.

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

CRITICAL SOURCES

There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. These resources provide and overview or summary of the topic.

The following titles are appropriate to this topic:

PR 821.C7 1991 Critical Survey of Long Fiction

PN 771.M3 1991 Major 20th-Century Writers

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Joyce Studies Annual

Click the links for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

• English Literature
• Literature-General

WEB SITES 

Voice of the Shuttle 
http://vos.ucsb.edu

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Updated 08/20/2007