Dubliners

Text and Criticism; Revised Edition

By: James Joyce, Robert Scholes (Editor), A. Walton Litz (Editor)

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"Dubliners" was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed. The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" began to appear in the journal "Egoist" under the auspices of Ezra Pound. The first three stories in "Dubliners" might be incidents from a draft of "Portrait of the Artist," and many of the characters who figure in "Ulysses" have their first appearance here, but this is not a book of interest only because of its relationship to Joyce's life and mature work. It is one of the greatest story collections in the English language--an unflinching, brilliant, often tragic portrait of early twentieth-century Dublin. The book, which begins and ends with a death, moves from "stories of my childhood" through tales of public life. Its larger purpose, Joyce said, was as a moral history of Ireland.

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"In Dubliners, Joyce's first attempt to register in language and fictive form the protean complexities of the 'reality of experience, ' he learns the paradoxical lesson that only through the most rigorous economy, only by concentrating on the minutest of particulars, can he have any hope of engaging with the immensity of the world."-from the Introduction "Joyce renews our apprehension of reality, strengthens our sympathy with our fellow creatures, and leaves us in awe before the mystery of created things." -Atlantic Monthly

"It is in the prose of Dubliners that we first hear the authentic rhythms of Joyce the poet...Dubliners is, in a very real sense, the foundation of Joyce's art. In shaping its stories, he developed that mastery of naturalistic detail and symbolic design which is the hallmark of his mature fiction." -Robert Scholes and A. Walton Litz, authors of Dubliners: Text and Criticism

With an Introduction by John Kelly

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Editors' Preface
Chronology
The Text
Dubliners	p. 3
The Author and His Work
Facsimile Pages from "A Painful Case"	p. 229
The Composition and Revision of the Stories	p. 232
Epiphanies and Epicleti	p. 247
The Evidence of the Letters	p. 251
Criticism
Editors' Introduction to Criticism Section	p. 289
Work in Progress	p. 292
"Araby" and the Writings of James Joyce	p. 304
"Two Gallants"	p. 327
"Counterparts" and the Method of Dubliners	p. 339
"'O, she's a nice lady!'": A Rereading of "A Mother"	p. 348
The Backgrounds of "The Dead"	p. 373
"The Dead"	p. 389
"Stages" in "The Dead"	p. 395
Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's "The Dead"	p. 402
Distant Music: Sound and the Dialogics of Satire in "The Dead"	p. 408
Living History in "The Dead"	p. 421
Topics for Discussion and Papers	p. 439
Selected Bibliography	p. 447
Notes to the Stories	p. 457
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