Suspicious Readings of Joyce's "Dubliners" / / Margot Norris.

Because the stories in James Joyce's Dubliners seem to function as models of fiction, they are able to stand in for fiction in general in their ability to make the operation of texts explicit and visible. Joyce's stories do this by provoking skepticism in the face of their storytelling. Th...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
©2003
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Gnomon of the Book: "The Sisters"
  • 2 A Walk on the Wild(e) Side: "An Encounter"
  • 3 Blind Streets and Seeing Houses: "Araby"
  • 4 The Perils of "Eveline"
  • 5 Masculinity Games in "After the Race"
  • 6 Gambling with Gambles in "Two Gallants"
  • 7 Narrative Bread Pudding: "The Boarding House"
  • 8 Men Under a Cloud in "A Little Cloud"
  • 9 Farrington, the Scrivener, Revisited: "Counterparts"
  • 10 Narration Under the Blindfold in "Clay"
  • 11 Shocking the Reader in "A Painful Case"
  • 12 Genres in Dispute: "Ivy Day in the Committee Room"
  • 13 Critical Judgment and Gender Prejudice in "A Mother"
  • 14 Setting Critical Accounts Aright in "Grace"
  • 15 The Politics of Gender and Art in "The Dead"
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments