James Joyce  (1882-1941) LINKS Work in Progress: A Website Devoted to the Writings of James Joyce http://www.2street.com/joyce/ Probably the best resource on Joyce online, this page gives you information on how to join e-mail discussion groups on Joyce's work, access to the hypertext contents of Joyce Studies, an electronic journal of Joycean criticism, as well as maps, timelines, and audio recordings of Joyce readings. James Joyce Resource Center http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/english/organizations/ijjf/jrc/ This in-process site has a biographical timeline of Joyce's life and, most important for your research, is an excellent source of bibliographic information on Joyce criticism. These bibliographic listings are particularly useful because they are organized by genre (for example, you can select the Marxist, psychoanalytic, or feminist approach to Joyce) and thus allow you to focus on Joyce's work from a specific critical angle. Joyce Sites on the Web http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/jajweb.html A good overview of the cultural phenomenon of James Joyce with links ranging from serious academic articles on Joyce's work to humorous Joyce sites on the Web, this interesting site is worth taking some time to explore. James Joyce's Ulysses: A Feminist Perspective http://www.moorhead.msus.edu/~chenault/annot.htm Though to some extent focused on the role of women in Joyce's epic novel Ulysses, this excellent bibliographical list includes scholarship that treats the topics of gender and women in Joyce's other work as well. The list, compiled by Brittney G. Chenault, is annotated, allowing you to quickly scan a brief summary of each item's contents. James Joyce: E-Texts http://www-engl.cla.umn.edu/Visiting/Marx/WEBPAGE/joyce.htm Here you can read Joyce's work, including Dubliners, online. Also of interest is a link to a critical essay on Joyce's short story "Grace." Music and Language in Joyce's "The Dead" http://www.goshen.edu/~lonhs/GCPUBLICATIONS/Joyce.html A scholarly article, particularly useful if you are writing on this story, that explores a major theme in "The Dead." BIOGRAPHY James Joyce (1882-1941). Though educated in Jesuit schools, Joyce came to reject Catholicism. An expatriate living in Paris, Trieste, and Zurich for most of his adult life, he wrote almost exclusively about his native Dublin. Joyce's rebelliousness, which surfaced during his university career, generated a revolution in modern literature. His novels Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939) introduced radically new narrative techniques. Dubliners (1914) is one of a series of sharply realized vignettes based on Joyce's experiences in Ireland, the homeland he later characterized as "a sow that eats its own farrow." Joyce lived precariously on earnings as a language teacher and modest contributions from wealthy patrons. That support Joyce justified—he is certainly one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth century. Because Ulysses dealt frankly with sexuality and used coarse language, the U.S. Post office charged that the novel was obscene, and forbade its importation. A celebrated court decision lifted the ban in the United States.

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