It is said that if tomorrow Dublin were to perish from the face of the earth, it could be reconstructed in its entirety from the works of James Joyee. Dubliners is a masterpieee of literary and psychological innovation, a critical examination of a nation in a state of social and political paralysis, and the stunning debut of a young author--but most of all, it is a vivid pieture of a place and a time and a people. Joyee said he wrote it in a style of "scrupulous meanness." His unsparing attention to the warts-and-aU details of his subjeet made people squeamish--so squeamish that it took him nearly a decade to find a publisher who would agree to print the books.
It is said that if tomorrow Dublin were to perish from the face of the earth, it could be reconstructed in its entirety from the works of James Joyee. Dubliners is a masterpieee of literary and psychological innovation, a critical examintion of a nation in a state of social and political paralysis, and the stunning debut of a young author--but most of all, it is a vivid pieture of a place and a time and a people. Joyee said he wrote it in a style of "scrupulous meanness." His unsparing attention to the warts-and-aU details of his subjeet made people squeamish--so squeamish that it took him nearly a decade to find a publisher who would agree to print the books.
INTRODUCTION
CHRONOLOGY OF JAMES JOYCS"S
IIFE AND WORK
HISTORICAL CONTEXT oF DuMiners
DUBLINERS
THS SISTERS
AN ENCOUNTER
ARABY
EVELINE
AIRIER THE RACE
Two GALLANTS
THE BOARDING House
A LrrTLE CLOUD
COUNTERPARTS
CLAY
A PAINFUL CAsa
IvY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM
A MOTHER
GRACE
THE DEAD
NOTES
INTERPRETIVE NOTES
CRITICAL EXCERPTS
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE
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