Authors: James Joyce, John Kelly
ISBN-13: 9780679405740, ISBN-10: 0679405747
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: November 1991
Edition: Reprint
You know an author is powerful when his name becomes a literary adjective; and "Joycean" is regularly applied to the countless writers James Joyce has influenced as one of the 20th century's greatest writers. His flowing, sometimes musical, often challenging prose -- most famously in the epic Ulysses -- has provoked and inspired readers.
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Though James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904 when he was twenty-two and completed them in 1907, their unconventional themes and language led to repeated rejections by publishers and delayed publication until 1914. In the century since, his story “The Dead” has come to be seen as one of the most powerful evocations of human loss and longing that the English language possesses; all the other stories in Dubliners are as beautifully turned and as greatly admired. They remind us once again that James Joyce was not only modernism’s chief innovator but also one of its most intimate and poetic writers.
In this edition the text has been revised in keeping with Joyce’s wishes, and the original versions of “The Sisters,” “Eveline,” and “After the Race” have been made available in an appendix, along with Joyce’s suppressed preface to the 1914 edition of Dubliners.
Editors' Preface | ||
Chronology | ||
I | The Text | |
Dubliners | 3 | |
II | The Author and His Work | |
Facsimile Pages from "A Painful Case" | 229 | |
The Composition and Revision of the Stories | 232 | |
Epiphanies and Epicleti | 247 | |
The Evidence of the Letters | 251 | |
III | Criticism | |
Editors' Introduction to Criticism Section | 289 | |
Work in Progress | 292 | |
"Araby" and the Writings of James Joyce | 304 | |
"Two Gallants" | 327 | |
"Counterparts" and the Method of Dubliners | 339 | |
"'O, she's a nice lady!'": A Rereading of "A Mother" | 348 | |
The Backgrounds of "The Dead" | 373 | |
"The Dead" | 389 | |
"Stages" in "The Dead" | 395 | |
Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's "The Dead" | 402 | |
Distant Music: Sound and the Dialogics of Satire in "The Dead" | 408 | |
Living History in "The Dead" | 421 | |
Topics for Discussion and Papers | 439 | |
Selected Bibliography | 447 | |
Notes to the Stories | 457 |