Dubliners : Text and Criticism; Revised Edition

by Joyce, James; Scholes, Robert; Litz, A. Walton

• ISBN13: 9780140247749
• ISBN10: 0140247742
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781460404782
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780670018055
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: Penguin Books
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Summary

In these masterful stories, steeped in realism, Joyce creates an exacting portrait of his native city, showing how it reflects the general decline of Irish culture and civilization. Joyce compels attention by the power of its unique vision of the world, its controlling sense of the truths of human experience.

Author Biography

James Joyce (1882–1941), an Irish poet and novelist, was one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century. His works include Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Colum McCann (foreword) is the author of the National Book Award–winning novel Let the Great World Spin and of TransAtlantic. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he now lives in New York City.

Terence Brown (introduction and notes) is an emeritus fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

Roman Muradov (cover illustrator) has done illustrations for an array of clients, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue, NPR, and Dark Horse Comics. He lives in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Editors' Preface
Chronology
The Text
Dubliners	p. 3
The Author and His Work
Facsimile Pages from "A Painful Case"	p. 229
The Composition and Revision of the Stories	p. 232
Epiphanies and Epicleti	p. 247
The Evidence of the Letters	p. 251
Criticism
Editors' Introduction to Criticism Section	p. 289
Work in Progress	p. 292
"Araby" and the Writings of James Joyce	p. 304
"Two Gallants"	p. 327
"Counterparts" and the Method of Dubliners	p. 339
"'O, she's a nice lady!'": A Rereading of "A Mother"	p. 348
The Backgrounds of "The Dead"	p. 373
"The Dead"	p. 389
"Stages" in "The Dead"	p. 395
Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's "The Dead"	p. 402
Distant Music: Sound and the Dialogics of Satire in "The Dead"	p. 408
Living History in "The Dead"	p. 421
Topics for Discussion and Papers	p. 439
Selected Bibliography	p. 447
Notes to the Stories	p. 457
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