Suspicious Readings of Joyce's "Dubliners"

Suspicious Readings of Joyce's

Author: Margot Norris

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2010-11-24

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0812202988

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Because the stories in James Joyce's Dubliners seem to function as models of fiction, they are able to stand in for fiction in general in their ability to make the operation of texts explicit and visible. Joyce's stories do this by provoking skepticism in the face of their storytelling. Their narrative unreliabilities—produced by strange gaps, omitted scenes, and misleading narrative prompts—arouse suspicion and oblige the reader to distrust how and why the story is told. As a result, one is prompted to look into what is concealed, omitted, or left unspoken, a quest that often produces interpretations in conflict with what the narrative surface suggests about characters and events. Margot Norris's strategy in her analysis of the stories in Dubliners is to refuse to take the narrative voice for granted and to assume that every authorial decision to include or exclude, or to represent in a particular way, may be read as motivated. Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners examines the text for counterindictions and draws on the social context of the writing in order to offer readings from diverse theoretical perspectives. Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners devotes a chapter to each of the fifteen stories in Dubliners and shows how each confronts the reader with an interpretive challenge and an intellectual adventure. Its readings of "An Encounter," "Two Gallants," "A Painful Case," "A Mother," "The Boarding House," and "Grace" reconceive the stories in wholly novel ways—ways that reveal Joyce's writing to be even more brilliant, more exciting, and more seriously attuned to moral and political issues than we had thought.


Selection from Dubliners+cd

Selection from Dubliners+cd

Author: Collective

Publisher: Black Cat

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788853016348

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These stories from James Joyce's Dubliners take you inside the tragedies and comedies of Irish life in the early twentieth century. Meet unforgettable characters, including a boy who died for love, determined mothers and romantic dreamers. Many of them are forced to see the truth about their lives. One of Ireland's greatest writers gives you his view of his native city.--Quatrième de couverture.


Four Continents

Four Continents

Author: R. A. Henderson

Publisher: Uitgeverij De Boeck Secundair onderwijs

Published: 2013-02-18

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9788877543288

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Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Australian, Caribbean, South African and Nigerian, yet they all write in English. The 'English' literature of the ex-colonies is proving to be the most interesting and innovative of our times: this volume offers a significant example of its vitality and originality. As Salman Rushdi said, 'the Empire writes back'.


Dubliners

Dubliners

Author: James Joyce

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2012-07-26

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0141974583

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With an essay by J. I. M. Stewart. 'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears ... But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work' From a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife, these fifteen stories bring the gritty realism of existence in Joyce's native Dublin to life. With Dubliners, James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.


Dubliners

Dubliners

Author: James Joyce

Publisher: Standard Ebooks

Published: 2014-05-25T00:00:00Z

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Dubliners is a collection of picturesque short stories that paint a portrait of life in middle-class Dublin in the early 20th century. Joyce, a Dublin native, was careful to use actual locations and settings in the city, as well as language and slang in use at the time, to make the stories directly relatable to those who lived there. The collection had a rocky publication history, with the stories being initially rejected over eighteen times before being provisionally accepted by a publisher—then later rejected again, multiple times. It took Joyce nine years to finally see his stories in print, but not before seeing a printer burn all but one copy of the proofs. Today Dubliners survives as a rich example of not just literary excellence, but of what everyday life was like for average Dubliners in their day. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.


Critical Companion to James Joyce

Critical Companion to James Joyce

Author: A. Nicholas Fargnoli

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1438108486

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Examines the life and writings of James Joyce, including a biographical sketch, detailed synopses of his works, social and historical influences, and more.


The Problem of Cell 13

The Problem of Cell 13

Author: Jaques Futrelle

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-07-27

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 3752354267

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Reproduction of the original: The Problem of Cell 13 by Jaques Futrelle


MusicHound Folk

MusicHound Folk

Author: Neal Walters

Publisher: Visible Ink Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 1110

ISBN-13:

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Offers discographies and reviews of recordings by hundreds of folk artists, with suggestions on what to buy and what to avoid.