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Dubliners' Dozen: The Games Narrators Play »
Authors: Gerald Doherty
ISBN-13: 9780838640128, ISBN-10: 0838640125
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Gerald Doherty
Book Synopsis
A specialist on Modernist writers, retired English professor Doherty offers a dozen essays, each applying what he calls a microtheory on James Joyce's story collection Dubliners. He identifies four games that the narrator plays with both the readers and the characters: castration, contract, semantic, and paralysis. In each case he explains the theory before deploying it. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | 9 | |
| Introduction | 11 | |
| 1 | The sisters : laughter in the dark | 29 |
| 2 | An encounter : the Jouissance trip | 36 |
| 3 | Araby : singing in the rain | 46 |
| 4 | Two gallants : a finger pointing at the moon | 57 |
| 5 | The boarding house : castration games | 68 |
| 6 | A little cloud : Sunset Boulevard | 77 |
| 7 | Counterparts : double or quits | 89 |
| 8 | A painful case : the contract that never was | 99 |
| 9 | A mother : contracting out | 109 |
| 10 | Dubliners : undercover stories | 119 |
| 11 | "The sisters," "eveline," "a mother," "grace" : figures on ice | 135 |
| 12 | The dead : ingenuous hospitalities | 145 |
| Notes | 154 | |
| Works cited | 172 | |
| Index | 177 |
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