Dubliners

by Joyce, James; Brown, Terence

• ISBN13: 9780140186475
• ISBN10: 0140186476
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

"Since its publication in 1914, Dubliners has been arguably the most famous collection of short stories written in English. Through what James Joyce described as their "style of scrupulous meanness," the stories collectively present a direct, sometimes searing view of the city of Dublin in the twentieth century. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Walter Gabler's scholarly edition and includes Gabler's edited text, his textual notes, and a newly revised version of his introduction, which details and discusses the complicated publication history of Dubliners. Explanatory annotations are provided by the volume editor, Margot Norris." ""Contexts" is a rich collection of materials intended to bring Dubliners to life for twenty-first-century readers. The Irish capital of a century ago is captured through photographs, maps, songs, newspaper items, and advertising. Early versions of two of the stories and Joyce's satirical poem about his publication woes provide additional background." ""Criticism" includes eight interpretive essays that illuminate some of the stories most frequently taught and discussed -"Araby," "Eveline," "After the Race," "The Boarding House," "Counterparts," "A Painful Case," and "The Dead." The contributors are David G. Wright, Heyward Ehrlich, Margot Norris, James Fairhall, Fritz Senn, Morris Beja, Roberta Jackson, and Vincent J. Cheng. A Selected Bibliography is also included."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

James Joyce was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. He was the oldest of ten children in a family which, after brief prosperity, collapsed into poverty. In 1902, following his graduation from University College, Dublin, he went to Paris, where he devoted himself to writing poems and prose sketches, and formulating an "aesthetic system." Recalled to Dublin in April 1903 because of the fatal illness of his mother, he met a young woman from Galway, Nora Barnacle, and persuaded her to go with him to the Continent, where they finally settled, in Trieste, in 1905. They had two children, a son, Giorgio, and a daughter, Lucia. Joyce's first book, the poems of Chamber Music, was published in London in 1907, followed by Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Exiles, a play (1918). In 1920, Joyce moved to Paris, publishing Ulysses, the book which brought him international fame, in 1922. His final book, Finnegans Wake, was published in 1939. After the outbreak of the Second World War, Joyce moved back to Zurich, where he had lived during the First World War. He died there on January 13, 1941. Terence Brown was born in 1944 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he is Associate Professor of English and a Fellow of the college. He is author of Louis MacNeice: Sceptical Vision (1975), Northern Voices: Poets from Ulster (1975), Ireland: A Social and Cultural History (1981, 1985), and Ireland's Literature: Selected Essays (1988). He is currently at work on a critical biography of W. B. Yeats. He has lectured on Anglo-Irish literature in many parts of the world. He lives in Dublin with his wife and two children. Seamus Deane, Professor of English and Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies at Notre Dame, is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, a founding director of the Field Day Theatre, the general editor of the works of James Joyce for Penguin Classics, and the author of several books, including A Short History of Irish Literature; Celtic Revivals; Essays in Modern Irish Literature; and Strange Country: Modernity and the Nation, as well as a novel, Reading in the Dark, which has been translated into more than twenty languages.

Table of Contents

Dubliners Introduction
Notes on Introduction
Note on Text

The Sisters
An Encounter
Araby
Eveline
After the Race
Two Gallants
The Boarding House
A Little Cloud
Counterparts
Clay
A Painful Case
Ivy Day in the Committee Room
A Mother
Grace
The Dead

Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Notes