Bernard Benstock

Bernard Benstock
Born	1930
Died	July 14, 1994 Egremont, Massachusetts
Occupation	literary critic and English professor
Literary movement	Irish literature, Modernism

Bernard Benstock (1930 – July 14, 1994) was a literary critic and a professor of English at the University of Miami. He was an authority on British mystery writers, and Irish writers Sean O'Casey and James Joyce. He was editor of the "James Joyce Literary Supplement" and a co-founder of the International James Joyce Foundation, of which he was president for eight years. He died on July 14, 1994 at the age of 64, in Egremont, Massachusetts.

Bernard Bernstock's wife donated a large stock of documents to the "Roberto Ruffilli Library", in Forlì (Italy).

Major works

• Benstock, Bernard (1965). Joyce-Again's Wake: An Analysis of Finnegans Wake. University of Washington Press. ASIN B0000CNAPA.
• Benstock, Bernard (1971). Sean O'Casey (Irish Writers). Associated Univ Pr. ISBN 0-8387-7618-3.
• Benstock, Bernard (1976). Paycocks and others: Sean O'Casey's world. Barnes & Noble Books. ISBN 0-06-490363-X.
• Approaches to Joyce's Portrait: Ten Essays (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1976)
• Benstock, Bernard (1977). James Joyce: The undiscover'd country. Barnes & Noble Books. ISBN 0-06-493278-8.
• Benstock, Bernard; Shari (1980). Who's He When He's At Home: A James Joyce Directory. University of Illinois Press. ASIN B000OQ89EE.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Benstock, Bernard (1985). Art in crime writing: Essays on detective fiction. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-05397-5.
• Benstock, Bernard (1989). British Mystery and Thriller Writers Since 1940: First Series (Dictionary of Literary Biography). Gale Cengage. ISBN 0-8103-4565-X.
• Benstock, Bernard (1993). Narrative Con/Texts in Dubliners. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02058-8.

External links

• To make a long story short: In memoriam Bernard Benstock, 1930-1994