Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9780252063534 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 328 str.

John Frow; Meaghan Morris

Opis

The harvest of a long and deep acquaintance with Joyce's fifteen enigmatic stories of Dublin life, Narrative Con/Texts in Dubliners creatively widens the definition of context to include networks of theme and symbol. By treating Dubliners as an expanding document of lives in the process of being lived and by paying attention to how the boundaries between stories break down, Benstock is able to notice how characters and situations come uncannily to resemble each other. There are several innovative approaches here (for example, the thorough inspection of the economic conditions of Joyce's Dublin, down to the halfpenny) as well as new twists on established ideas. Benstock attempts a global, integrated reading of the stories, substituting his more holistic con/texts for the current fashion of context-hunting. His is an old ambition (for full coverage) in a new, upbeat format.