Short Story Criticism

Araby, James Joyce | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Atherton, J. S. “Araby.” James Joyce's Dubliners: Critical Essays, edited by Clive Hart, pp. 39–47. New York: The Viking Press, 1969.

Discusses the ways in which “Araby” is typical of Joyce's oeuvre.

Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren. “Araby.” Understanding Fiction, pp. 414–24. East Norwalk, CT: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1943.

Brooks and Warren explicate the major themes of Joyce's “Araby.”

Collins, Ben L. “‘Araby’ and the ‘Extended Simile.’” Twentieth Century Interpretations of Dubliners: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Peter K. Garrett, pp. 93–9. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Originally published in 1967, finds parallels in “Araby” and Homer's The Odyssey, Dante's Commedia, and the biblical story of the Garden of Eden.

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