Dubliners (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Joyce
- First Published: 1914
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Poverty or poor people, Christianity, Sisters, Catholics or Catholic Church, Ireland or Irish people, Priests, Peasantry or peasants, Cities or towns
- Locales: Dublin, Ireland
Critical Evaluation:
James Joyce, the preeminent experimental modernist, began Dubliners with a version of “The Sisters.” A first-person narrative, it appeared in a 1904 issue of Irish Homestead under the pseudonym Stephen Daedalus. Thus the narrator was part of the story, its now mature protagonist. A character of the same name was already the protagonist of an autobiographical novel-in-progress, Stephen Hero, that ultimately became A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Stephen Dedalus (why Joyce changed the spelling of the last name...
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