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This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide.

Each volume offers:

-- A comprehensive overview of the artist's short fiction -- including detailed analyses of every significant story

-- Interviews, essays, memoirs and other biographical materials -- often previously unpublished

-- A representative selection of critical responses

-- A comprehensive primary bibliography, a selected bibliography of important criticism, a chronology of the artist's life and works and an index

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CHOICE Review

It is surprising that James Joyce has only just been added to this remarkable introductory series; but this volume is a welcome addition. After a preface and a short piece on Ireland's bards, the standard format of three principal parts is again evident: "The Short Fiction," "The Writer," and "The Critics," of which the first, by Brunsdale, occupies roughly half the text. In each case, the focus is on Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, described by the author as "revered twin pillars of modern literature." Part 2 consists of material drawn from such sources as Joyce's notebooks and his letters. Sixteen critics contribute to the third part, which is followed by a chronology, a glossary of Roman Catholic terminology, a selected bibliography, and an index. Complementing Sydney Bolt's A Preface to James Joyce (2nd ed., 1992), Brunsdale's study should remove much of the trepidation with which students frequently face Joyce. Undergraduate; general. J. A. Wiseman; Trent University