Dec 19, 2009

Dubliners | Dubliners

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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Dubliners | Dubliners

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