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dncrgal91
dncrgal91
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Where does James Joyce use stream of consciousness in the "Dubliners" stories?

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Posted by dncrgal91 on Sunday October 12, 2008 at 12:48 PM and tagged with dubliners, stream of consciousness, style, technique.

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  1. anzio45
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    While it some years since I have read Dubliners in full, I don't recall any passages that could be regarded as stream of consciousness narration. For the most part the stories are told in a fairly conventional, linear narrative style. At some points we are taken more inside a character's head than usual - the boy's ultimate despair and self-criticism in Araby, or Gabriel's self-revelation in The Dead, for example - but even here I would regard the narration as conventional rather than stream of consciousness.

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    Posted by anzio45 on Wednesday November 12, 2008 at 7:15 AM