| Description |
xviii, 492 pages : 2 maps ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
The Viking critical library |
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Viking critical library.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [447]-455). |
| Contents |
I. THE TEXT. Dubliners -- The sisters -- An encounter -- Araby -- Eveline -- After the race -- Two gallants -- The boarding house -- A little cloud -- Counterparts -- Clay -- A painful case -- Ivy day in the committee room -- A mother -- Grace -- The dead -- A note on the text -- II. THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORK -- Facsimile pages from "A painful case" -- The composition and revision of the stories -- Epiphanies and epicleti -- The evidence of the letters -- III. CRITICISM -- Editor's introduction to criticism section -- Work in progress / Frank O'Connor -- "Araby" and the writings of James Joyce / Harry Stone -- "Two gallants" / A. Walton Litz -- "Counterparts" and the method of "Dubliners" / Robert Scholes -- "'O, she's a nice lady!'": a rereading of "A mother" -- The backgrounds of "The dead" / Richard Ellmann -- "The dead" / Allen Tate -- "Stages" in "The dead" / Kenneth Burke -- Structure and sympathy in Joyce's "The dead" / C.C. Loomis, Jr. -- Distant music : sound and the dialogics of satire in "The dead" / Bruce Avery -- Living history in "The dead" / Michael Levenson -- Topics for discussion and papers -- Selected bibliography -- Notes to the stories. |
| Summary |
Although James Joyce left Ireland as a young man and spent most of his adult life on the European continent, all his books have Ireland as their geographic center. When asked near the end of his life if he ever intended to return to Ireland, Joyce responded candidly, "Have I ever left it?" In the fifteen classic stories that comprise Dubliners, James Joyce seeks to explore the "significance of trivial things." While the stories can be regarded as separate and independent entities, they can also be considered as parts of a larger whole, reinforcing and illuminating each other, acting as pieces of a mosaic that captures moods from childhood, young adulthood, courtship, and married life, as well as the public life of church, state, and the arts. Included in the collection is The Dead," Joyce's most enduring and evocative piece of short fiction, together with the often anthologized Araby, Eveline, and A Painful Case. Complementing the edition are eight specially commissioned maps of Dublin that allow the reader to follow the characters in and around the city that Joyce deemed "the center of paralysis," and an introduction by renowned Joyce scholar Don Gifford. --Publisher. |
| Subject |
Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction.
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Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Dubliners.
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Dublin (Ireland) -- In literature.
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| Added Author |
Scholes, Robert, 1929-2016
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Litz, A. Walton.
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| ISBN |
0140247742 |
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9780140247749 |
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