Rethinking Joyce's Dubliners

ISBN-13: 9783319393353 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 226 str.

Claire A. Culleton; Ellen Scheible

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This collection of essays is a critical reexamination of Joyce's famed book of short stories, Dubliners. Despite the multifaceted critical attention Dubliners has received since its publication more than a century ago, many readers and teachers of the stories still rely on and embrace old, outdated readings that invoke metaphors of paralysis and stagnation to understand the book. Challenging these canonical notions about mobility, paralysis, identity, and gender in Joyce's work, the ten essays here suggest that Dubliners is full of incredible movement. By embracing this paradigm shift, current and future scholars can open themselves up to the possibility of seeing that movement, maybe even noticing it for the first time, can yield surprisingly fresh twenty-first-century readings.

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Table of Contents

Introduction. Rethinking Dubliners: A Case for What Happens in Joyce’s Stories by Claire A. Culleton and Ellen Scheible 

Chapter 2. “The thin end of the wedge”: How Things Start in Dubliners by Claire A. Culleton     

Chapter 3. “No There There”: Place, Absence, and Negativity in “A Painful Case’”

                by Margot Norris 

Chapter 4. A “Sensation of Freedom” and the Rejection of Possibility in

                by Jim LeBlanc      

Chapter 5. “Scudding in towards Dublin”: Joyce Studies and the Online Mapping Dubliners Project

                by Jasmine Mulliken 

Chapter 6.  Joyce’s Mirror Stages and “The Dead”

                by Ellen Scheible

Chapter 7.  Joyce’s Blinders: an Urban Ecocritical Study of Dubliners and More

                by Joseph P. Kelly              

Chapter 8. Counterpart's Clashing Cultures: Navigating Among Print, Printing, and Oral Narratives in Turn of the Century Dublin

                by Miriam O’Kane Mara

Chapter 9. Intermental Epiphanies: Rethinking Dubliners with Cognitive Psychology

                by Martin Brick   

Chapter 10. From “spiritual paralysis” to “spiritual liberation”: Joyce’s Samaritan “Grace”

                by Jack Dudley  

Chapter 11. Men in Slow Motion: Male Gesture in “Two Gallants”

                by Enda Duffy  

 

 

O autorze

Claire A. Culleton is Professor of English at Kent State University, USA. Her books include Names and Naming in Joyce; Working-Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914-1921; and Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover’s Manipulation of Modernism. She has also collaborated on two co-edited collections, Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950 and Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive.

Ellen Scheible is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Irish Studies at Bridgewater State University, USA. Her recent publications have appeared in Hypermedia Joyce Studies and New Hibernia Review.  She is the president of the New England regional branch of the American Conference for Irish Studies.