Dubliners

by Joyce, James

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Title Statements

Full title :Dubliners / James Joyce ; text, criticism, and notes edited by Robert Scholes and A. Walton Litz.

Summary

Although James Joyce left Ireland as a young man and spent most of his adult life on the European continent, all his books have Ireland as their geographic center. When asked near the end of his life if he ever intended to return to Ireland, Joyce responded candidly, "Have I ever left it?" In the fifteen classic stories that comprise Dubliners, James Joyce seeks to explore the "significance of trivial things." While the stories can be regarded as separate and independent entities, they can also be considered as parts of a larger whole, reinforcing and illuminating each other, acting as pieces of a mosaic that captures moods from childhood, young adulthood, courtship, and married life, as well as the public life of church, state, and the arts. Included in the collection is The Dead," Joyce's most enduring and evocative piece of short fiction, together with the often anthologized Araby, Eveline, and A Painful Case. Complementing the edition are eight specially commissioned maps of Dublin that allow the reader to follow the characters in and around the city that Joyce deemed "the center of paralysis," and an introduction by renowned Joyce scholar Don Gifford. --Publisher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1996.
Edition:Rev. and updated ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Penguin Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1996.

The Physical Object

Description:xviii, 492 p. : : 2 maps ; : 20 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0140247742, 9780140247749
oclc:on1057958804
LC Classification:PR6019.O9
Dewey Decimal:823/.912

I. The Text. Dubliners -- II. The Author and His Work. Facsimile Pages from "A Painful Case" The Composition and Revision of the Stories. Epiphanies and Epicleti. The Evidence of the Letters -- III. Criticism. Work in Progress / Frank O'Connor. "Araby" and the Writings of James Joyce / Harry Stone. "Two Gallants" / A. Walton Litz. "Counterparts" and the Method of Dubliners / Robert Scholes. "'O, she's a nice lady!'": A Rereading of "A Mother" / Jane E. Miller. The Backgrounds of "The Dead" / Richard Ellmann. "The Dead" / Allen Tate. "Stages" in "The Dead" / Kenneth Burke. Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's "The Dead" / C. C. Loomis, Jr. Distant Music: Sound and the Dialogics of Satire in "The Dead" / Bruce Avery. Living History in "The Dead" / Michael Levenson.

Subjects

City and town life City and town life -- Fiction. -- Irela… City and town life in literature Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction. -- Social … Dublin (Ireland) -- In literature Dublin (Irlande) -- Dans la littérature Dublin (Irlande) -- Moeurs et coutumes Dubliners (Joyce, James) Fiction Ireland -- Dublin Joyce, James Joyce, James (1882-1941) Literature Manners and customs Vie urbaine -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. … Vie urbaine dans la littérature