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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Dubliners"”.
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Consciousness and death in James Joyce's Dubliners
… a single protagonist exists in James Joyce's Dubliners, that Joyce masks the enduring Dubliner-consciousness under the guises of various protagonists, and that this consciousness develops and matures within the many lives Joyce traces in his book. Indeed, many critics have examined Dubliners …
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Allusion, aesthetics, and nationalism in James Joyce's Dubliners
Joyce's Dubliners is complex work responding to the political and social realities of post-Parnell Ireland. Centring on middle class Ireland, Dubliners scrutinizes the culture of a decayed Anglo-Ireland, and a resurgent Catholic middle-class nationalism, and finds a complex formation of related …
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Survivors: a Collection of Stories
… geographical area or time period, like Joyce's Dubliners or Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. Yet one theme stands out in the collected stories: Surviving in a difficult, and often alien, environment, for example--the struggle of a Vietnamese family new to Missouri and the struggle of a native …
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The place of history in contemporary architecture
… most famous storyteller, James Joyce. His Dubliners and Ulysses were a significant influence on the storytellers house.
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A reading of selected writings of James Joyce in relation to the works of Gilles Deleuze (and Félix Guattari)
… depiction of the 'paralysis' of the populace in Dubliners and A Portrait to his fuller understanding of our problematic situation in modernity depicted and diagnosed in the masochism of Bloom in Ulysses. In Chapter Three, I look at the epiphany, Deleuze's concept of Joyce's 'epiphanic machine', …
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The city as metaphor in three works by James Joyce
… is, of course, to state the obvious. In <em>Dubliners</em>, <em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</em>, and <em>Ulysses</em>, the location of the action is carefully described, and the reader is presented with various views of Dublin that are remarkable in their detail and vividness. …
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The Dubliner Dilemma : Circumstance or Environment
… and reveal the paralysis (Joyce's term for the Dubliners) or entrapment of Dublin's citizens. Some learn from the paralysis and profit by the experience such as the small boy in "The Sisters" who gains spiritual and intellectual knowledge when he learns something about the paralysis of the …
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Sickness of the Spirit: A Comparative Study of Lu Xun and James Joyce
… Lu Xun's Call to Arms and Wandering and Joyce's Dubliners. I argue that the slave mentality is displayed in spectatorship and signified by the vicious cycle of history, and that for Joyce and to some extent for Lu Xun as well, the artistic affirmation of life promises an awakening from history as …
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The Dublin Library Society and its founding members: associational activity and cultural patriotism in late-eighteenth-century Dublin.
… of legislative independence from Britain. Dubliners expressed their patriotism through participation in clubs and societies that promoted Irish cultural, commercial, political, and social improvement and self-sufficiency. Further Enlightenment ideals of toleration and intellectual …
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The Sites of Uncertainty: The Politics and Poetics of Place in Short Fiction by James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner
… on the representation of place in Joyce’s Dubliners (including the interior, the exterior, the public place of the street and the space of home and country); it is argued that Joyce’s short story cycle generates a polyphonic world. In the second chapter, focusing on Anderson’s Winesburg, …
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Bored As Hell: Reading Boredom in Modern Literature
… examines Anton Chekhov’s plays, James Joyce’s Dubliners, and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and explores what it means to be bored with life itself and complain about it. I bring Heidegger’s profound boredom together with Werner Hamacher’s essay on complaints and the Stoic exercise …
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Publishing short stories : British modernist fiction and the literary marketplace
… 1902); James Joyce in The Irish Homestead and Dubliners (Grant Richards, 1914); and Virginia Woolf in Monday or Tuesday (Hogarth, 1921). For these writers, the production of short fiction within the literary marketplace had definite and important consequences on their texts as well as the …
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The Identity and International Relations of Orkney and Dublin in the long Eleventh Century
… it had strong connections. Even if Orcadians and Dubliners were aware of their shared Scandinavian heritage, this does not seem to have played a particularly important part in their foreign policy and decision-making. Being part of a diaspora does not necessarily mean that this was their primary …
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Tales of (Dis)connection: Moving Through an Interconnected Europe in the Short Story, 1880–1930
… Joyce – who wrote his short story collection Dubliners (1914) after a formative stay as an emigrant in Paris – uses ellipses to stress how permanently settled natives may feel unable to acknowledge uncomfortable truths about their homeland, whereas Rhys, in her collection The Left Bank (1927), …
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Storytelling in Modernist Fiction: A “Method of Presence”
… firstly in examples from James Joyce’s <em>Dubliners</em>, paired with neorealist films directed by Ermanno Olmi and Vittorio De Sica, and later prove the development of this technique in literature and film, using Joyce’s <em>Ulysses</em> and Virginia Woolf’s <em>To the Lighthouse</em>, and …