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Enigmatic, vivid, and terse, James Joyce s Dubliners continues both to puzzle and to compel its readers. This collection of essays by thirty contributors from seven countries presents a revolutionary view of Joyce s technique and draws out its surprisingly contemporary implications by beginning with a single unusual premise: that meaning in Joyce s fiction is a product of engaged interaction between two or more people. Meaning is not dispensed by the author; rather, it is actively negotiated between involved and curious readers through the medium of a shared text. Here, pairs of experts on...

• Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary.
  
• Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements.
  
• Covers a wide range of authors up to the outbreak of World War II, among them Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Langston Hughes, Samuel Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean...

• Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary.
  
• Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements.
  
• Covers a wide range of authors up to the outbreak of World War II, among them Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Langston Hughes, Samuel Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean...

Enigmatic, vivid, and terse, James Joyce's Dubliners continues both to puzzle and to compel its readers. This collection of essays by thirty contributors from seven countries presents a revolutionary view of Joyce's technique and draws out its surprisingly contemporary implications by beginning with a single unusual premise: that meaning in Joyce's fiction is a product of engaged interaction between two or more people. Meaning is not dispensed by the author; rather, it is actively negotiated between involved and curious readers through the medium of a shared text. Here, pairs of experts on...

States of Desire argues that what people desire is fundamentally connected to how they write and read. Not only do language and narrative shape desire (and...