James Joyce
Essays

¶ … reading is "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. This introduction to a different kind of novel is a new experience for me, because as I finished reading the novel, I felt disenchanted and unsure of the story's…

James Joyce develops strong female characters in his short story "The Dead" and uses them in contrast to the men. The primary contrast is that between Gretta and Gabriel, and while Gretta is described in feminine terms…

¶ … women are confined in society as depicted in the stories by Steinback, Joyce and Oates.

¶ … Araby," by James Joyce, "The Aeneid," by Virgil, and "Candide," by Voltaire. Specifically, it will look at love as a common theme in literature, but more often than not, it does not live up to the romantic ideal of…

The opening chapters of novels are always crucial components, not usually because they deal with major events, but because they introduce the elements that the remainder of the novel will build on.

Women are predators, men are the sorry prey, suggests the short story "The Boarding House." Such is James Joyce's overall attitude in his collection of short stories entitled Dubliners.

James Joyce's "The Dead" and a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

This essay is presented in the form of a state appeals court decision after consideration of the facts surrounding a bookseller obscenity conviction. A respected literary work was aggressively prosecuted under obscenity laws in the State of Indiana and a conviction was obtained. When appealed to a higher court the conviction was easily overturned because the lower court ignored many of the criteria constituting the Miller test for obscenity. An analysis is presented and decision made.

The adolescent perspective as depicted in the short stories of Joyce, Faulkner, and Cather

¶ … Exhaustion" demonstrates an interest in the subject of how different media might affect the meaning of art. Barth's general remarks at the opening of "The Literature of Exhaustion" indicate a sort of ambivalence…