Dubliners

ISBN-13: 9780333777701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 240 str.

Andrew Thacker

Opis

Andrew Thacker brings together a range of different critical interpretations of Dubliners that demonstrate the complexity and fascination of James Joyce's 'moral history'. The volume includes a variety of essays by a number of influential Joyce scholars and shows how contemporary literary theory has opened up Dubliners in exciting and revealing new ways. The essays tackle a host of issues, such as Irish history, gender relations, and the nature of literary interpretation itself.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; A.Thacker.- A Beginning: Signification, Story and Discourse in Joyce's The Sisters; T.F.Staley.- Silences in Dubliners; J-M.Rabaté.- Through a Cracked Looking-Glass: Desire and Frustration in Dubliners; S.A.Henke.- Narration Under a Blindfold: Reading Joyce's 'Clay'; M.Norris.- 'No Cheer for the Gratefully Oppressed': Ideology in Joyce's Dubliners; T.L.Williams.- 'An Encounter': Boys' Magazines and the Pseudo-Literary; R.B.Kershner.- Uncanny Returns in 'The Dead'; R.Spoo.- 'Araby': The Exoticised and Orientalized Other; V.J.Cheng.- The Dubliners Epiphony: (Mis)Reading the Book of Ourselves; K.J.H.Dettmar.- 'Have you no homes to go to?': James Joyce and the Politics of Paralysis; L.Gibbons.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.

O autorze

ANDREW THACKER is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English at De Montfort University, UK.

Blurb

James Joyce's Dubliners is one of the most studied collections of short stories in the world. Perplexing and innovative in technique, Joyce wanted Dubliners to be a 'chapter in the moral history of my country'.

This New Casebook brings together a range of different critical interpretations of Dubliners that demonstrate the complexity and fascination of Joyce's 'moral history'. It includes a variety of essays by a number of influential Joyce scholars and shows how contemporary literary theory has opened up the stories in exciting and revealing new ways. The essays show how Joyce interrogates the key issues of Irish history, gender relations, and the nature of literary interpretation itself, thereby encouraging the reader to return to Dubliners with a new set of questions to explore.