An introduction
by Wallace Gray : The modernist
writer is engaged in a revolution against nineteenth-century style and content in
fiction and Joyce's Dubliners is one of the landmarks of that struggle. But it is
a subtle one, as the stories can be read on two mutually exclusive levels...
In
Dubliners, women are victims
indeed: The Dead is supreme proof of James Joyce's mastery of the nineteenth
century style. With a sure touch, beautiful language and the omniscient and impersonal
narrator favored in the last century, The Dead is the equivalent of an entire Flaubert
or Balzac novel encapsulated in a short story. It shares with novels of hundreds
of pages the capture of an entire social world... They are victims of home, of the
recognised virtues by society, of classes of life, of religious doctrines, and of
women themselves. This essay analyses the portrayal of women in Dubliners in terms
of home, the recognised virtues by society, classes of life, religious doctrines
and women themselves.
The sisters - a class presentation
: "The Sisters" raises
the issue of the (un)reliablity of language in its attempt to order the world...
Sisters : listen to a recording
of Frank McCourt reading the complete story at Salon Audio.
Imperial Pathologies: Medical
Discourse and Drink in Dubliners' "Grace": It is the drunken body that
acts as a primary emblem of paralysis in Dubliners...
Father Purdon's homily in the third part of "Grace": the textual problems and
context of the Bible passage, and Father Purdon's pretext in his application of the
passage.
About
language and time.
The
Dead, Joyce's story - a lecture from Oregon
: in a sense, because he is so firmly embedded in this tradition, struggling against
it, Joyce seems both hopelessly dated and eternal...
Escape and Alcoholism
in James Joyce's Dubliners, A Review of Modern Literature, English 389 : "Escape
is the major theme the students of English 389 found in James Joyce's Dubliners.
Escape takes forms ranging from physical flight to spiritual transcendence. This
issue will particularly examine flight through alcohol among the Irish citizens.
The students examine the incidents of escape but also the mental and emotional framework
which drives the need for physical or spiritual exile..."
