SECTION C : PRESCRIBED AUTHORS

C.1 CHAUCER

C.2 SPENSER

C.3 SHAKESPEARE

C.4 MILTON

C.5 CLARE

C.6 AUSTEN

C.7 DICKENS

C.8 JOYCE

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CHAUCER

• J.W.H. Atkins, English Literary Criticism: the Medieval Phase, 1934
• C.S. Baldwin, Medieval Rhetoric and Poetic, 1928
• A.C. Baugh, Chaucer's Major Poems , Introduction
• D.S. Brewer, Chaucer's Poetic Style', in The Cambridge Chaucer Companion, ed. LI. Boitani & J. Mann, 1986
• D.S. Brewer, The Relationship of Chaucer to the English and European Traditions', in Chaucer and Chaucerians, 1966
• D.S. Brewer, ed., Chaucer: The Critical Heritage Vol.1: 1385-1837, 1978; see Index, e.g., Literary qualities' antiquity', language', metre', vocabulary', etc.
• *D. Burnley, A Guide to Chaucer's Language, 1983
• J.D. Burnley, Chaucer's Language and the Philosopher's Tradition, 1979
• J.D. Burnley, Criseyde's Heart and the Weakness of Women: An Essay in Lexical Interpretation', SN 54, 1982, pp.25-38
• N. Davis, 'Chaucer and Fourteenth -Century English' in Writers and their Background: Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Derek Brewer
• N. Davis, et al., A Chaucer Glossary (1979)
• N. Davis, 'Language and Versification', in The Riverside Chaucer, ed. L.D. Benson, 3rd.ed., pp. xxix-xliv
• E.T. Donaldson,'Chaucer's Final -e', PMLA 63, 1948 & 64, 1949
• E.T. Donaldson, Idiom of Popular Poetry in the Miller's Tale', in Speaking of Chaucer, 1970
• *LI. Dronke, 'Medieval Rhetoric' in Literature and Western Civilization: The Medieval World, ed. D. Daiches and A.K. Thorlby
• R.M.V. Elliott, Chaucer's English
• D. Everett, Chaucer's Good Ear' & Some Reflections on Chaucer's Art Poetical ', in Essays on Middle English Literature, 1955
• A.J. Gilbert, Literary Language from Chaucer to Johnson, 1979, ch. 1
• H. Kokeritz, A Guide to Chaucer's Pronunciation, 1961, rpt. 1978
• J.M. Manly, 'Chaucer and the Rhetoricians', PBA 12, 1926
• M. Masui, The Structure of Chaucer's Rime Words, Tokyo, 1964
• J. Mersand, Chaucer's Romance Vocabulary, 1939
• J.J. Murphy, 'A New Look at Chaucer and the Rhetoricians' RES 15, 1964
• J.J. Murphy, Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, 1974
• C. Muscatine, The Canterbury Tales: style of the man and style of the work', in Chaucer and Chaucerians ed. D.S. Brewer, 1966
• I.J. Mustanoja, 'Chaucer's Prosody', in Companion to Chaucer Studies, ed. Beryl Rowland, 1979, pp.65-94
• R.O. Payne, The Key of Remembrance: A Study of Chaucer's Poetics, 1963
• R.O.Payne, 'Chaucer and the Art of Rhetoric', in Companion to Chaucer Studies, ed Beryl Rowland, 1979, pp.42-64
• R.A. Peters, Chaucer's Language , Journal of English Linguistics, Occasional Monographs I, 1980
• G. Roscow, Syntax and Style in Chaucer's Poetry, 1981
• T.W. Ross, Chaucer's Bawdy, 1972
• W. Rothwell, Lexical Borrowing in a Medieval Context', Bulletin of the John Ryland's Library 63, 1980
• V.L. Rubel, Poetic Diction in the English Renaissance, 1935
• V. Salmon, 'The representation of colloquial speech in The Canterbury Tales' in Style and Text, ed. H. Ringbom, pp. 263-77
• M.L. Samuels,'Chaucerian Final -E', Notes and Oueries NS 19, 1972
• M.L. Samuels, 'Chaucer's Spelling', in Middle English Studies [for] Norman Davis, ed. D. Gray and E. Stanley, pp.17-37
• A.O. Sandved, Introduction to Chaucerian English, 1983
• M. Schlauch, 'Chaucer's Colloquial English', PMLA, 1952
• J.J. Smith, The English of Chaucer and His Contemporaries, 1988
• B.M.H. Strang, A History of English, pp.250-281
• *J.R.R. Tolkien, 'Chaucer as Philologist', Transactions of the Philological Society, 1934
• Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria Nova, trans. M.F. Nims, 1967; also in Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts, ed. J.J. Murphy, 1971

SPENSER

• Works, ed. C.G. Osgood and H.G. Lotspeich, Johns Hopkins, 1943
• J.W.H. Atkins, English Literary Criticism: The Renaissance, London, 1947, pp. 371ff
• H. Berger, Jr., Mode and Diction in The Shepheardes Calender', Modern Philology 67, 1969, pp. 140-49; also in Revisionary Play, Berkeley, 1989
• S. Chatman and S.R. Levin, eds. Essays on the-Language of Literature, Boston, 1967; see essays by Oras and Miles
• *M. Craig, The Secret Wit of Spenser's Language' in Elizabethan Poetry, ed. Paul Alpers, London, 1967
• R.M. Cummings, ea., Spenser: the Critical Heritage, New York, 1971
• A. Fowler, Conceitful Thought: The Interpretation of English Renaissance Poems, Edinburgh, 1975
• J. Goldberg, Endlesse Worke: Spenser and the Structures of Discourse, Baltimore, 1981
• B. Groom, The Diction of Poetry from Spenser to Bridges, Toronto, 1956
• *A.C. Hamilton, "Our new poet": Spenser, "Well of English undefyld"' in A Theatre for Spenserians, ed. Judith M. Kennedy and James A. Reither, Toronto, 1973
• A.C. Hamilton, ed., Spenser Encyclopedia; see 'Spencer's Language', B. Strang; 'Dialect', LI. Ingham; 'Archaism' etc., Kingston, Ontario, 1990
• J. Hollander, Spenser and the Mingled Measure', English Literary Renaissance 1, 1971, pp 226-38
• J. Hollander, Spenser's Undersong' in Cannibals Witches. and Divorce: Selected Papers from the English Institute, New Series, No. 11, ed. Marjorie Garber, Baltimore, 1985
• *LI. Ingham, 'Spencer's Use of Dialect' ELN 8, 1971,pp. 164-8 (reassesses McElderry)
• A. Leigh Deneef, Spenser and the Motives of Metaphor, Durham, N. Carolina, l982
• *B.R. McElderry, 'Archaism and Innovation in Spenser's Poetic Diction', PMLA, 1932
• J. Malof, A Manual of English Meters, Bloomington, 1970
• J. Miles, Renascence Eighteenth Century and Modern Language in English Poetry: A Tabular View, Berkeley, 1960
• F.M. Padelford, 'Aspects of Spenser's Vocabulary' in Studies for Hardin Craig, Stanford, 1941, pp. 87-91
• A.C. Partridge, The Language of Renaissance Poetry, London, 1971
• E.F. Pope, 'Renaissance Criticism and the Diction of the Faerie Queen', PMLA, 1932
• W.L. Renwick, 'The Critical Origins of Spenser's Diction', M.L.R., 1922
• H. W. Sugden, The Grammar of Spenser's Faerie Queene, 1936
• C.L. Wrenn, 'On Re-reading Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar', E & S, 1942
• H.C. Wyld, 'Spencer's Diction and Style', Grammatical Miscellany offered to O. Jespersen

SHAKESPEARE

• E.A. Abbott, A Shakespearean Grammar, New York, 1966
• C. Barber, 'Thou and you', in Salmon and Burness, pp. 163179
• R. Berry, The Shakespearean Metaphor, Macmillan, 1978
• *N.F. Blake, Shakespeare's Language, London, 1983
• G.L. Brook, The Language of Shakespeare, 1970
• H. Bradley, 'Shakespeare's English' in Shakespeare's England, pp. 539- 574
• W.J. Carroll, The Great Feast of Language in 'Love's Labour Lost', 1976
• F. Cercigiani, Shakespeare's Works and Elizabethan Pronunciation, pp. 12-15
• B. Cusack, 'Shakespeare and the tune of the time', Shakespeare Survey 23, 1970, pp. 1-20, rpr. in Salmon and Burness, pp. 23-36
• M. de Grazia, 'Shakespeare's view of language: an historical perspective', Shakespeare Quarterly 29, 1978, pp. 374388
• R.W. Dent, Shakespeare's Proverbial Language: An Index, Berkeley, 1981
• J. Donawerth, Shakespeare and the Sixteenth-Century Study of Language
• M. Doran, Shakespeare's Dramatic Language
• LI. Edwards, I-S Ewbank, and G.K. Hunter, eds., Shakespeare's Styles, 1980
• K. Elam, Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse: Language Games in the Comedies, Cambridge, 1982
• B.I. Evans, The Language of Shakespeare's Plays, 1952
• I.-S. Ewbank, 'Shakespeare's Poetry' in New Companion to Shakespeare Studies, ed. K. Muir and S. Schoenbaum, 1971, ch. 4
• B. A. Garner, 'Shakespeare's Latinate Neologisms', Shakespeare Studies 15, 1982, pp.149-70
• A. Gurr, 'You and Thou in Shakespeare's Sonnets', Essays in Criticism 32, 1982, pp. 995.
• T. Hawkes, Shakespeare's Talking Animals, 1973
• H. Hulme, Explorations in Shakespeare's Language, London, 1962
• *S.S. Hussey, The Literary Language of Shakespeare, 1982
• M. Joseph, Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language
• H. Kokeritz, Shakespeare's Pronunciation, pp. 56-157 (superseded by Cercigiani)
• M. Mahood, Shakespeare's Wordplay, London, 1957
• T. McAlindon, Shakespeare and Decorum, 1973
• K. Muir and S. Schoenbaum, eds., New Companion to Shakespeare Studies, 1971
• J. Mulholland, 'Thou and you in Shakespeare: A Study in the Second person Pronoun' English Studies 48, 1967, pp.19, repr. in Salmon and Burness, pp. 153-161
• E. Partridge, Shakespeare's Bawdy, rev.ed. London, 1968
• *R. Quirk, 'Shakespeare and the English Language' in New Companion to Shakespeare Studies, ed. K. Muir and S. Schoenbaum, 1971, ch. 5
• W. Redfern, Puns (see Index for Shakespearean references)
• C. Replogle, 'Shakespeare's Salutations: A Study in Stylistic Etiquette', Studies in Philology 70, 1973, pp. 172-86
• V. Salmon, 'Elizabethan Colloquial English in the Falstaff Plays', Leeds Studies in English NS 1, 1967
• V. Salmon, 'Some functions of Shakespearean Word-formation', in Salmon and Burness
• V. Salmon, 'The spelling and punctuation of Shakespeare's time' in The Works of William Shakespeare, ed. S. Wells and G. Taylor (original spelling edition), pp. xliilvi, Clarendon, 1986
• *V. Salmon and E. Burness, eds., A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama, 1987,
• V. Salmon and E. Burness, 'Aspects of Colloquial Elizabethan English' in Salmon and Burness, pp. 37-129
• B.M.H. Strang, A History of English, pp.120-133 & 184-196
• M. Trousdale, Shakespeare and the Rhetoricians, London, 1982
• *B. Vickers, 'Shakespeare's use of rhetoric ' in New Companion to Shakespeare Studies, ed. K. Muir and S. Schoenbaum, ch. 6, rpt. in Salmon and Burness, pp. 391-406
• B. Vickers, The Artistry of Shakespearean Prose, London, 1968
• K. Wales, "'Thou" and ''you' in Early Modern English: Brown and Gilman Re-Appraised', Studia Linguistica 37, 1983, pp. 107-25
• G. Willcock, 'Shakespeare and Elizabethan English', Shakespeare Survey 7
• Willcock, 'Shakespeare as a Critic of Language', Shakespeare Association Pamphlet, 1934
• F.LI. Wilson, ' Shakespeare and the Diction of Common Life PBA, 1941

MILTON

• J. Carey and A. Fowler, eds., The Poems of John Milton Longman, 1968
• D.M. Wolfe, et al., eds., The Complete Prose Works of John Milton, Yale, 1953
• J. Addison, Spectator, no. 285
• C. Belsey, John Milton: Language Gender. Power, London, 1988
• R. Bradford, Milton's Graphic Poetics' in Re-Membering Milton, ed. Mary Nyquist and Margaret W. Ferguson, London, 1967
• J.B. Broadbent, 'Links between Poetry and Prose in Milton', English Studies 37, 1956, pp. 49-60
• J.B. Broadbent, 'Milton's Rhetoric', MP 56, 1959, pp. 224-42
• *A. Burnett, Milton's Style: The Shorter Poems and 'Paradise Regained', London, 1981
• E.M. Clark, 'Milton's English Poetical Vocabulary' SP 53, 1956, pp. 220-38
• T.N. Corns, The Development of Milton's Prose Style, Oxford, 1982
• T.N. Corns, ed., The Literature of Controversy: Polemical Strategies from Milton to Junius, 1986, essay by N. Smith
• H. Darbishire, 'Milton's Poetic Language', Essays and Studies 10, 1957, pp. 31-52
• R.D. Emma, Milton's Grammar, The Hague, 1964
• R.D. Emma and J.T. Shawcross, eds., Language and Style in Milton, New York, 1967; essays by Brooke-Rose, Dobson, Emma, Hamilton, Hulme, Shawcross
• H. Erskine Hill and G. Storey, eds, Revolutionary Prose of the English Civil War
• B. Groom, The Diction of Poetry from Spenser to Bridges, Toronto, 1956, pp. 74-94
• C. Kendrick, Milton: A Study ln Ideology and Form, 1986 essay on Areopagitica and The Orator
• Le Comte, A Milton Dictionary, London, 1961
• J.M. Major, 'Milton's View of Rhetoric' SP 64, 1967, pp. 685-711
• D.K. Pearse, 'The Style of Milton's Epic' in Milton: Modern Essays in Criticism, ed. A.E. Barker, New York, Oxford U.LI., 1965
• *F.T. Prince, 'Milton's Blank Verse: the Diction' in Milton, ed. L.L. Martz, Englewood Cliffs, 1966
• F.T. Prince, The Italian Element in Milton's Verse, Oxford, 1954
• *C. Ricks, Milton's Grand Style, Oxford, 1963
• N. Smith, ed., A Collection of Ranter Writings, 1983 - for comparison with Milton's polemical prose
• K W. Stavely, The Politics of Milton's Prose Style, New Haven, 1975
• W. Sypher, Four Stages of Renaissance Style, Garden City, 1955

JOHN CLARE

Editions

• Robinson, E. and Powell, D (eds.), John Clare (Oxford University Press: The Oxford Authors, 1984)
• Robinson, E. and Summerfield, G. (eds.), Selected Poems and Prose of John Clare (Oxford University Press, 1967)
• Robinson, E. and Summerfield, G. (eds.), The Shepheard's Calendar (Oxford, 1964)

Biographical

• Martin, F.W., The Life of John Clare (2nd ed., London, 1964)
• Blunden, E., Keats's Publisher, A Memoir of John Taylor (London, 1936) (also Clare's publisher)
• Tibble, J.W. and A., John Clare: his Life and Poetry (London, 1956)
• For bibliography, see Crossan, G, A Relish for Eternity (Salzburg, 1976)

Criticism

• Barrell, J., The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place 1730-1840: An Approach to the Poetry of John Clare (Cambridge, 1972)
• Brownlow, T., John Clare and the Picturesque (Oxford, 1983)
• Middleton Murry, J., Countries of the Mind (London, 1937)
• Strang, B.M., 'John Clare's Language', Appendix I to Thomton R.K.R. ed., The Rural Muse: Poems by John Clare. A second edition of Clare's volume of 1835 (Ashington, 1982)
• Paulin, T., 'John Clare in Babylon', in Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State (London: Faber, 1992), 47-55
• Heaney, S., John Clare's Prog', in The Redress of Poetiy: Oxford Lectures (London: Faber, 1995),63-82
• Paulin, T., 'Strinking Dropples: John Clare', in Writing to the Moment: Selected Critical Essays

AUSTEN

• A. Banfield, Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction, RKP, 1982
• W.C. Booth, A Rhetoric of Irony, Chicago, 1974
• F.W. Bradbrook, 'Style and Judgment in Jane Austen's Novels', Cambridge Journal 4, 1950-1, pp. 515-37
• J. Burrows, Computation into Criticism, OUP, 1987
• R.W. Chapman, Sense and Sensibility, Oxford, 1923, pp. 388-422
• D. Gilson, ed., A Bibliography of Jane Austen, Oxford, 1982, 'Soho' series; see index under 'Language and Style', pp. 807-8
• M. Lascelles, 'Some Characteristics of Jane Austen's Style', English Studies 22, 1937, pp. 61-85
• D. Lodge, The Language of Fiction, RKP, 1966
• N. Page, Speech in the English Novel, Longman, 1973
• *N. Page, The Language of Jane Austen, Blackwell, 1972
• N. Page, 'Standards of Excellence: Jane Austen's Language' in Review of English Literature, 7.3, 1966, pp. 91-98
• K.C. Phillipps, 'Lucy Steele's English', English Studies Anglo-American Supplement, 1969, pp. lv-lxi
• K.C. Phillipps, 'Jane Austen's English', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 70, 1969, pp. 319-338
• K.C. Phillipps, Jane Austen's English, Andre Deutsch, Language Library, London, 1970
• F.B. Pinion, A Jane Austen Companion: a Critical Survey and Reference Book, 1973
• E. Raybould, 'Of Jane Austen's Use of Expanded Verbal Forms' in Studies in English Language and Literature presented to Professor Karl Brunner, Vienna, 1957, pp. 175-190
• Stuart M. Tave, Some Words of Jane Austen, Chicago, 1973

DICKENS

Dickens and Language

• Brook, G. L.7 The Language of Dickens (London: Andre Duetsch, 1970)
  (Mainly lists - of limited use)
• Dowling, L., Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siecle (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986)
  (General discussion of assumptions behind studies of language)
• Gerson, S., Sound and Symbol in the Works of Charles Dickens (Stockholm Studies in English 19: 1967)
  (Detailed analysis of phonology, more general appendices)
• Golding, R. B., Idiolects in Dickens (1982; London: Macmillan, 1985)
  (Discussion of individual language styles)
• Ingham, LI., The Language of Gender and Class: Transformation in the Victorian Novel (London: Routledge, 1996)
  (Introductory chapter on class, chapter on Hard Times)
• Matthews, W., Cockney Past and Present (1938; London: Routledge, 1972)
  (Factual and reasonably accurate discussion of Cockney language)
• Mugglestone, L., Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
  (Highly relevant discussion of linguistic facts)
• Page, N., Speech in the English Novel (London: Longman, 1973)
  (A useful chapter on Dickens)
• Phillips, K. C., The Language of Thackeray (London: Deutsch, 1978)
  (Fairly useful)
• Phillips, K. C., Language and Class in Victorian Fiction (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984)
  (Usefulfor its references rather than discussion)
• Sucksmith, H., The Narrative Art of Charles Dickens: the rhetoric of svmpathy and irony in his novels (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970)
  (Literary discussion of style)

Glossary

• Levit, F., A Dickens Glossary (New York: Garland, 1990)

Articles on Linguistic Topics

• Gierson, S., 'Dickens's Use of Malapropisms' Dickensian, 61 (1965) 40ff.
• Glenn, R. B., 'Linguistic Class-Indicators in the Speech of Dickens's Characters,' REL 2 (1961) 21ff.
• Macleod, N., 'Lexicogrammar and the Reader: Three Examples from Dickens,' in Language. Text and Context: Essavs in Stylistics ed. M. Toolan (London: Routledge, 1992) 138-57.
• Sorenson, K., 'Charles Dickens: Linguistic Innovator,' ES 65, no. 3 (June 1984) 237-47.

Articles on the Language of Individual Novels

Pickwick Papers

• Marlow, J. E., "Pickwick's Writing: Propriety and Language," ELH 52, no. 4 (Winter 1985) 939-63.

Oliver Twist

• Ginsburg, M. LI., 'Truth and Persuasion: The Language of Realism and of Ideology in Oliver Twist,' Novel 20, no. 3 (Spring 1987) 220-36.
• Ingham, LI., 'The Name of the Hero in Oliver Twist,' RES 32 (1981) 121 ff.
  (Links name with thieves ' slang)
• Page, N., "'A Language Fit for Heroes": Speech in Oliver Twist and Our Mutual Friend,' Dickensian, 65 (1969) l OOff.

Martin Chuzzlewit

• McCarthy, LI. J., 'The Language of Martin Chuzzlewit,' SEL 20 (1980) 637-49.
• Saywood, B., 'Martin Chuzzlewit: Language as Disguise,' Dickensian 82, no. 2 (Summer 1986) 86-97.

Dombey and Son

• Ingham, LI., 'Speech and Non-Communication in Dombey and Son,' RES 30 (1979) 145ff.

David Copperfield

• Macleod, N., 'The Discussion of Prose Style: An Example from David Copperfield,' in Studies in the English Language eds., J. Anderson and N. Macleod (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1988) 156-67.

Bleak House

• Fenstermaker, J. J., 'Language Abuse in Bleak House: The First Monthly Instalment,' in Victorian Literature and Society: Essavs Presented to Richard D. Altick eds. J. Kincaid and A.Kuhn (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1984) 240-57.
• Foor, S. M., 'Dickens's "Wall of Words" in Bleak House' DAI 46, no. 12 (June 1986)

Hard Times

• Campbell, J., "'Competing Towers of Babel": Some Patterns of Language in Hard Times' ESC10, no. 4 (1984 Dec.) 416-35.
• Eiabrizio, R., 'Wonderful No-Meaning: Language and the Psychopathology of the Family in Dickens' Hard Times,' DSA 16 (1987) 61-94.
• Ingham, LI., 'Dialect as Realism: Hard Times and the Industrial Novel,' RES 37 (1986) 518ff.(Links dialect with treatment of class)

Little Dorrit

• Ingham, LI., 'Nobody's Fault: The Scope of the Negative in Little Dorritin Dickens Refigured ed. J. Schad (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996)
  (Links verbal negation with novel's themes)

A Tale of Two Cities

• Gregory, M., 'Old Bailey Speech in the Tale of Two Cities,' REL, 6 (1965) 55ff.
• Lloyd, T., 'Language, Love and Identity inA Tale of Two Cities,' Dickensian 88, no. 3 (Fall 1992) 154-70.

Great Expectations

• Meckier, J., 'Dickens, Great Expectations, and the Dartmouth College Notes,' PLL 28, no. 2 (Spring 1992) 111-32.

Our Mutual Friend

• Page, N., "'A Language Fit for Heroes": Speech in Oliver Twist and Our Mutual Friend,' Dickensian, 65 (1969) 100ff.

Edwin Drood

• Wales, K., 'Dickens and Interior Monologue: The Opening of Edwin Drood Reconsidered,' Lang&S 17, no. 3 (Summer 1984) 234-50.

JAMES JOYCE

NB: for good concise bibliography see Attridge, 1990 below, 'Further Reading', 283-93. Because of the prominence of language, especially in the later works, most major critical discussions of Joyce are relevant to language commentary.

Editions

• For major works, see modern Penguin editions (Brown's Dubliners, Deane's Portrait, Kiberd's Ulysses, etc.), supplemented by the following important editions:
• Johnson, J. (ed.), (Oxford 1993): 1922 version with detailed introduction and notes
• Gabler, (ed.), Ulysses corrected (?) text, 1986
• Finnegans Wake (Faber) standard pagination
• Mason, E. and Ellmann, R (eds.), Critical Writings of James Joyce (1959, reprinted 1989)

Bibliography

• Slocum, J.J. and Cahoon, H., A Bibliography of James Joyce 1882-1941 (1953) Joyce 's own writings
• Staley, T.F., An Annotated Critical Bibliography of James Joyce (Brighton: Harvester, 1989)

Biography

• Ellmann, R., James Joyce (New York: Oxford, 1959, new ed. 1982)

Language

• Burgess, A., Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce (1973)
• Attridge, D., Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the the Renaissance to James Joyce (New York and London, 1988), chapters 5 and 6
• Wales, K., The Language of James Joyce (Macmillan 1992)

General Criticism

• Attridge, D. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (1990)
• Deming, R.H. (ed.), James Joyce: The Critical Heritage 2 vols. (1970)
• MacCabe, C. (ed.), James Joyce: New Perspectives (1982)
• Attridge, D. and Ferrer, D. (eds.), Post-Structuralist Joyce. Essays from the French (1984)
• MacCabe, C., James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word (London, 1978)
• Eco, U., The Middle Ages of James Joyce (1982)

Linguistic Criticism of Particular Works

• Gifford, D., Joyce Annotated: Notes for 'Dubliners' and 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' 2nd ed. (1982)
• Gifford, D. et al., Ulysses Annotated(1974; rev. ed. UCLA Press, 1988)
• Lawrence, K., The Odyssey of Style in 'Ulysses' (1981)
• McHugh R., The Sigla of 'Finnegans Wake' (1976)
• McHugh, R., Annotations to Finnegans Wake (1980)
• Norris, M., The Decentred Universe of Finnegans Wake. A Structuralist Analysis (1974)
• Higginson, F.H., Anna Livia Plurabelle. The Making of a Chapter (Minneapolis, 1960)
• Atherton, J.S., The Books at the Wake: A Study of Literary Allusions in James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' (1959)