The Dead
Contributors: Daniel R. Schwarz (Editor)
Series: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780312080730
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Classics; Fiction / Classics; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 1882-1941; 1882-1941; Dead; Dublin (Ireland); Family reunions; Fiction; Joyce, James,; Literary Criticism
Description: 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 that approach.

The text and essays are further complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts to Joyce and "The Dead," a survey of critical responses to the story since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.