"Oxen of the Sun" Bibliography

Books

• Janusko, Robert. The Sources and Structures of James Joyce's "Oxen". Ann Arbor: UMI, 1983.

Chapters in Books

• Atherton, James S. "'The Oxen of the Sun'". James Joyce's Ulysses: Critical Essays. Ed. Clive Hart and David Hayman. Berkeley: U of California P, 2002. 313-39.
• Blamires, Harry. "Chapter 14: 'Oxen of the Sun'". The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 1996. 146-58.
• Duffy, Enda. "Interesting States: Birthing and the Nation in 'Oxen of the Sun'". Ulysses--En-Gendered Perspectives: Eighteen New Essays on the Episodes. Ed. Kimberly J. Devlin and Marilyn Reizbaum. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1999. 210-28.
• Gifford, Don, and Robert J. Seidman. "Episode 14: 'Oxen of the Sun'". Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. 2nd ed. Berkeley: U of California P, 2008. 406-49.
• Gilbert, Stuart. "14. 'Oxen of the Sun'". James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study. New York: Vintage, 1958. 294-312.
• Iser, Wolfgang. "Doing Things in Style: An Interpretation of the 'Oxen of the Sun' in James Joyce's Ulysses". The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1974. 179-95.
• Joyce, James. "Episode 14 ('Oxen of the Sun')". Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition. Ed. Hans Walter Gabler, Wolfhard Steppe, and Claus Melchior. 3 vols. New York: Garland, 1986. 2.824-923.
• Schneider, Ulrich. "Mediatization in 'Aeolus' and 'Oxen of the Sun'". Joyce, Modernity, and Its Mediation. Ed. Christine van Boheemen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989. 15-21.
• Thornton, Weldon. "'Oxen of the Sun'". Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1968. 323-57.

Articles

• Allison: June W. "A Literary Coincidence? Joyce and Plato". James Joyce Quarterly 16:3 (1979): 267-82.
  Parallels between “Oxen” and Plato’s Symposium.
• Ames, Christopher. "The modernist canon narrative: Woolf's Between the Acts and Joyce's `Oxen of the Sun'". Twentieth Century Literature 37.4 (1991): 390-404.
• Bauerle, Ruth. "A Sober Drunken Speech: Stephen's Parodies in 'The Oxen of the Sun'". James Joyce Quarterly 5:1 (1967): 40-6.
  Stephen’s speech parodies various Catholic doctrines.
• Benstock, Bernard. “Decoding in the Dark in ‘Oxen of the Sun’”. James Joyce Quarterly 28.3 (1991): 637-42
  Narratological abilities and limitations in “Oxen”.
• Benzenhöfer, Udo. “Joyce and Embryology: Giulio Valenti’s Lezioni Elementari diEmbriologia as a Source for ‘Oxen of the Sun’”. James Joyce Quarterly 26.4 (1989): 608-11.
  J studied many medical works for “Oxen”, especially Valenti’s book.
• Card, James Van Dyck. Rev. of The Sources and Structures of James Joyce’s "Oxen" by Robert Janusko. James Joyce Quarterly 24.2 (1987): 230-3.
• Carens, James F. “Some Points on Poyntz and Related Matters”. James Joyce Quarterly 16.3 (1979): 344-6.
  “Oxen of the Sun” puns on conception and contraception.
• Cohn, Alan M., ed. “Joyce’s Notes on the End of ‘Oxen of the Sun’”. James Joyce Quarterly 4.3 (1967): 194-201.
  J’s concern about eleven “doubtful spots” and Georg Goyert’s German translation
• Culleton, Claire A. "Patronymics and Onomastics in 'Oxen of the Sun'". Onomastica Canadiana 70.1 (1988): 23-32.
• Dunleavy, Gareth W. “Joyce’s Muddyevil Modalities”. James Joyce Quarterly 25.1 (1987): 59-67.
  Biblical, medieval allusions in Ulysses: “Cyclops”, “Oxen of the Sun”, “Circe”.
• Gaipa, Mark. "Culture, Anarchy, and the Politics of Modernist Style in Joyce's 'Oxen of the Sun'". Modern Fiction Studies 41.2 (1995): 195-217.
• Gilliver, Peter. “Billy Sunday: A New Source for ‘Oxen of the Sun’”. James Joyce Quarterly 44.1 (2006): 133-5.
• Gordon, John. "The Multiple Journeys of 'Oxen of the Sun'". Journal of English Literary History 46:1 (1979): 158-72.
  Joyce's organic development of linguistic, literary, historical, political, Biblical, cosmic, and biographical patterns through the episode.
• ---. "Obeying the Boss in 'Oxen of the Sun'". Journal of English Literary History 58.1 (1991): 233-59.
• Harris, Susan Cannon. “Invasive Procedures: Imperial Medicine and Population Control in Ulysses and The Satanic Verses”. James Joyce Quarterly 35.2-3 (1998): 373-99.
  Reflections of imperialism in “Oxen in the Sun” in episode’s medical discourse and parallels of image with that of childbirth in Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses.
• Janusko, Robert. “Another Anthology for ‘Oxen’: Barnett and Dale”. James Joyce Quarterly 27.2 (1990): 257-81.
  Early English sources for “Oxen”; Annie Barnett and Lucy Dale’s anthology of English prose, 1332-1740; inclusion of Ulysses notesheet entries.
• ---, “Grave Beauty: Newman in ‘Oxen’”. James Joyce Quarterly 28.3 (1991): 617-21.
  J’s admiration for Cardinal Newman; inclusion of Ulysses notesheet entries.
• ---. “‘Oxen’ Workshop: Zurich 1985”. James Joyce Quarterly 23.3 (1986): 362-3.
• ---. "Yet Another Anthology for the 'Oxen': Murison's Selections." Joyce Studies Annual (1990): 117-131.
• Joyce, James. "Ulysses: Episode XIV". The Little Review 7.3 (1920): 81-92.
  14.1-14.400. Poignantly concludes "(to be continued)"; but not, alas, in The Little Review.
• Kadir, Djelal. "Stalking the Oxen of the Sun and Felling the Sacred Cows: Joyce's Ulysses and Cabrera Infante's Three Trapped Tigers". Latin American Literary Review 4:8 (1976): 15-22.
• King, Mary C. “Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Nativism, Nationalism, and the Language Question in ‘Oxen of the Sun’”. James Joyce Quarterly 35.2-3 (1998): 349-71.
  Usage of theme of fetal development and birth and growth of English style in “Oxen ofthe Sun”; reexamination of these issues from a postcolonial perspective.
• Klein, A. M. "'The Oxen of the Sun'". Here and Now 1:3 (1949): 28-48.
  Intensive symbolic analysis of the foetal development of the episode.
• Mamigonian, Marc A., and John Noel Turner. “A Parallel Paraphrase of the Opening of‘Oxen of the Sun’”. James Joyce Quarterly 39.2 (2002): 337-45.
  First four paragraphs of“Oxen of the Sun” paraphrased.
• Reese, Steven. “The Doughty Deeds in ‘Oxen of the Sun’”. James Joyce Quarterly 23.4 (1986): 500-2.
  English traveler and author Charles Doughty.
• Rocco, John. “Drinking Ulysses: Joyce, Bass Ale, and the Typography of Cubism”. James Joyce Quarterly 33.3 (1996): 399-409.
  Pablo Picasso’s use of Bass Ale labels in collages influenced use of label in “Oxen of the Sun”; relationship of art to commodity culture.
• Schutte, William M. “An Index of Recurrent Elements in Ulysses: ‘Nausicaa’ and ‘Oxen of the Sun’”. James Joyce Quarterly 16.3 (1979): 311-33.
• Solomon, Albert J. “A Moore in Ulysses”. James Joyce Quarterly 10.2 (1973): 215-27.
  George Moore in “Scylla and Charybdis” and “Oxen of the Sun”.
• Turner, John Noel. “A Commentary on the Closing of ‘Oxen of the Sun’”. James Joyce Quarterly 35.1 (1997): 83-111.
  Line-by-line commentary/translation of U 14.1440-1591.
• Wales, Kathleen. “The ‘Oxen of the Sun’ in Ulysses: Joyce and Anglo-Saxon”. James Joyce Quarterly 26.3 (1989): 319-32.
  J’s narrative techniques in Anglo-Saxon section of“Oxen”.
• Weiss, Daniel. "The End of the 'Oxen of the Sun': An Analysis of the Boosing Scene in James Joyce's Ulysses. Analyst 9 (1955): 1-16.
  Attempted gloss and explication of the chaotic final pages of the episode. Also see various addenda submitted by several critics: Analyst 10 (1956): 10-18.
• West, Philip J. “Joyce’s Parody of Lamb in Ulysses”. James Joyce Quarterly 12.3 (1975): 318-21.
  “Oxen of the Sun” parody of Charles Lamb’s essay “Dream Children: A Reverie”.