The dead : complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives

Joyce, James 1882-1941 (Author). Schwarz, Daniel R. (Added Author).

Summary: This edition of Joyce's classic short story from Dubliners presents the 1969 Viking critical edition, prepared by Robert Scholes, along with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised for a student audience - that read "The Dead" from five contemporary critical perspectives. Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective, and a bibliography that promotes further exploration of.

Item details

ISBN: 0312120826 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9780312120825 (hardcover)
ISBN: 0312080735 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780312080730 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0333618491 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780333618493 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
viii, 248 p. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1994.

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"The text of "The Dead" is reprinted from the Viking Critical Library edition of Dubliners (1969), edited by Robert Scholes and A. Walton Litz"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Pt. 1. "The Dead": The Complete Text. Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts. The Complete Text -- Pt. 2. "The Dead": A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism. A Critical History of "The Dead" Psychoanalytic Criticism and "The Dead" What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism? Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography. A Psychoanalytic Perspective: Gabriel Conroy's Psyche: Character as Concept in Joyce's "The Dead" / Daniel R. Schwarz. Reader-Response Criticism and "The Dead" What Is Reader-Response Criticism? Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography. A Reader-Response Perspective: "A Symbol of Something": Interpretive Vertigo in "The Dead" / Peter J. Rabinowitz. The New Historicism and "The Dead" What Is the New Historicism? The New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography. A New Historicist Perspective: Living History in "The Dead" / Michael Levenson. Feminist Criticism and "The Dead" What Is Feminist Criticism? Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography. A Feminist Perspective: Not the Girl She Was at All: Women in "The Dead" / Margot Norris. Deconstruction and "The Dead" What Is Deconstruction? Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography. A Deconstructionist Perspective: For Whom the Snow Taps: Style and Repetition in "The Dead" / John Paul Riquelme -- Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms.

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Joyce, James 1882-1941
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Family reunions Fiction
The Dead (Huston)
Psychanalyse et littérature
Dublin (Ireland) Fiction
English fiction

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