Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Barnhisel, Greg. "An overview of 'Araby,'." Short Stories for Students. Detroit: Gale, 2002. Literature Resource Center. Web. 27 June 2012. This is a critical essay that explores the many themes in "Araby". The themes analyzed include nationality, religion, pop culture, art, and relationships between sexes. Barnhisel points out the many similarities between the protagonist of the story and James Joyce himself. Those also include nationality and religion, in addition to the location in which the young boy lives, which was where Joyce once lived--on North Richmond Street in Dublin, the school the boy attends was also the school Joyce attended as a boy--the Christian Brothers' School, and made a connection between Joyce's mother and father and the narrator's Aunt and Uncle. Barnhisel interestingly makes a connection between Mangan's sister and the Virgin Mary in addition to the narrators obvious not-so-religious desires for her. Barnhisel points out the sad epiphany the narrator of the story comes to, and calls attention to the fact that it is a recurring theme in many of Joyce's other stories.

Brugaletta, John J., and Mary H. Hayden. "The Motivation For Anguish In Joyce's 'Araby'." Studies In Short Fiction 15.1 (1978): 11. Academic Search Premier. Web. 3 July 2012

Coulthard, A. R. "Joyce's Araby." EXPLORING Short Stories. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. 27 June 2012. This is an essay where the writer takes on other interpretations of "Araby" and makes some claims of his own. In it he states that most people see it as an "initiation story recounting a young romantic's first bitter taste of reality", but he believes it to be one of deeper connotations (1). Coulthard argues that Joyce's "Araby" has a main theme not of a boy's sad reality of his romantic misconceptions, but rather it is a story of repression and religion. He says that it is a mature, knowing narrator recalling his first experience with reality rather than a naïve boy who had just experienced it. The statement the boy makes while standing in the middle of the darkened Araby, is what makes this writer feel the way he does about it, which he writes "the admission of vanity...reflects the oppressive Catholicism in the story, [it] is a severe morale judgment" (1).

Dettmar, Kevin J. H. "James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce." British Short-Fiction Writers, 1915-1945. Ed. John Headley Rogers. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 162. Literature Resource Center. Web. 1 July 2012.

"James Joyce." Biography.com. A&E, n.d. Web. 30 June 2012. This is a great article from the A&E website Biography.com, that quickly touches on the relatively short life of James Joyce. It hits most of the basics, like, where and when he was born and to whom, in addition to his writings, marriage, and eventual death. The article mentions how Joyce at a young age "showed not only exceeding intelligence but also a gift for writing and a passion for literature" (1). It really hones in on Joyce's incredible intelligence including his ability to speak a multitude of languages, teaching himself how to speak at least one of those languages on his own and Joyce pioneering a literary technique in such a way that it "set the course for a whole new kind of novel" (1).

Mandel, Jerome. "The Structure of Araby." EXPLORING Short Stories. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003.Discovering Collection. Gale. 1 July 2012. This is a very interesting excerpt from much longer essay published in the 15th issue of