The Dead – James Joyce

Read "The Dead"

Resources:

• James Joyce Chronology from Cambridge Companion to James Joyce

• "Dubliners" from Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce

• "Dubliners" from A Reader's Guide to James Joyce by William York Tindall

• Map from Dubliners: A Norton Critical Edition

• PODCAST: "Episode 205: Dubliners by James Joyce" from The Great Books Podcast

• PODCAST: "Episode 123: James Joyce’s The Dead (Part 1)" from The History of Literature

• PODCAST SERIES: Joyce's Dublin: An Athena Media online production for the UCD Humanities Institute

• MOVIE: John Huston's The Dead (1987) starring Anjelica Huston and Donal McCann

Online Articles:

• "How Much Did James Joyce Base 'The Dead' on His Own Family?: Colm Tóibín on the Greatest Short Story Ever Written" for LitHub

• "Why 'The Dead' by James Joyce Is the Greatest Christmas Story" by Charles Mudede for The Stranger

• "Joyce fans mourn loss of Dublin’s soul as developers buy House of the Dead" by Rory Carroll for The Guardian

• "‘Selling the Family Jewels’: A James Joyce Landmark Is Set to Become a Hostel" by Ed O’Loughlin for The New York Times

Critical Articles:

• "'The Dead' and the Generosity of the Word" - Vincent P. Pecora

• "'The Dead' Just Won't Stay Dead" - Jim LeBlanc

• "The Ending of 'The Dead': I Follow Saint Patrick" - Donald T Torchinana

• "Form and Subtext in Joyce's 'The Dead'" - Adrienne Auslander Munich

• "Gabriel and Michael: The Conclusion of 'The Dead'"- Florence L. Walzl

• "Gabriel's Sarcasm: A Lost Line in 'The Dead'" - Mark Osteen

• "Gendered Discourse and the Structure of Joyce's 'The Dead'" - David Leon Higdon

• "Irish History and Mythology in James Joyce's 'The Dead'" - John V. Kelleher

• "Joyce's 'The Dead': The Dissolution of the Self and the Police" - J. P. Riquelme

• "'The Old Irish Tonality': Folksong as Emotional Catalyst in 'The Dead'" - Julie Henigan

• "Pregnancy and Abjection in James Joyce's 'The Dead'" - Barry Ryan

• "Sex and Politics in 'The Dead'" - Thomas Dilworth

• "Structural Symbol in Joyce's 'The Dead'" - Brendan P. O. Hehir

• "'Who is G.C.?': Misprizing Gabriel Conroy in Joyce's 'The Dead'" - Melissa Free