Rethinking Joyce's Dubliners

Claire A. Culleton, Ellen Scheible, Claire A. Culleton, Ellen Scheible

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319393353
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319393360
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This collection of essays is a critical reexamination of Joyce's famed book of short stories, Dubliners. Despite the multifaceted critical attention Dubliners has received since its publication more than a century ago, many readers and teachers of the stories still rely on and embrace old, outdated readings that invoke metaphors of paralysis and stagnation to understand the book. Challenging these canonical notions about mobility, paralysis, identity, and gender in Joyce's work, the ten essays here suggest that Dubliners is full of incredible movement. By embracing this paradigm shift, current and future scholars can open themselves up to the possibility of seeing that movement, maybe even noticing it for the first time, can yield surprisingly fresh twenty-first-century readings. 

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Chapter 1: Introduction Rethinking Dubliners: A Case for What Happens in Joyce’s Stories
• Chapter 2: “The Thin End of the Wedge”: How Things Start in Dubliners
• Chapter 3: “No There There”: Place, Absence, and Negativity in “A Painful Case”
• Chapter 4: A “Sensation of Freedom” and the Rejection of Possibility in Dubliners
• Chapter 5: “Scudding in Towards Dublin”: Joyce Studies and the Online Mapping Dubliners Project
• Chapter 6: Joyce’s Mirror Stages and “The Dead”
• Chapter 7: Joyce’s Blinders: An Urban Ecocritical Study of Dubliners and More
• Chapter 8: Clashing Cultures in “Counterparts”: Navigating among Print, Printing, and Oral Narratives in Turn-of-the-Century Dublin
• Chapter 9: Intermental Epiphanies: Rethinking Dubliners with Cognitive Psychology
• Chapter 10: From “Spiritual Paralysis” to “Spiritual Liberation”: Joyce’s Samaritan “Grace”
• Chapter 11: Men in Slow Motion: Male Gesture in “Two Gallants”
• Index