Editors:
- Provides fresh and exciting discussions about the famed short story collection Joyce's Dubliners
- Explores cutting-edge approaches to Joyce including affect, cognitive, and mobility studies
- Outlines not only new discussions of the Dubliners but also revisits many of the stories’ literary history and controversy over the years
Part of the book series: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature (NDIIAL)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This collection of essays is a critical reexamination of Joyce’s famed book of short stories, Dubliners. Despite the multifaceted critical attention Dubliners has received since its publication more than a century ago, many readers and teachers of the stories still rely on and embrace old, outdated readings that invoke metaphors of paralysis and stagnation to understand the book. Challenging these canonical notions about mobility, paralysis, identity, and gender in Joyce’s work, the ten essays here suggest that Dubliners is full of incredible movement. By embracing this paradigm shift, current and future scholars can open themselves up to the possibility of seeing that movement, maybe even noticing it for the first time, can yield surprisingly fresh twenty-first-century readings.
Reviews
“It has been a staple of Dubliners criticism that Joyce’s stories are all about moral paralysis, personal emptiness, and social enervation. But, as this new and dazzling collection suggests, Dubliners stories are alive with movement, and are poised on the brink of the social upheavals that would soon change Ireland irrevocably. In them, the contradictions of nation, politics, domesticity, sexuality, and gender are not paralysing but explosive.” (Tony Thwaites, The University of Queensland, Australia, and author of “Joycean Temporalities: Debts, Promises, and Countersignatures”)
“As part of the rethinking of Easter 1916 occasioned by its centenary observations, this fine collection finds evidence of what was rising historically amid the paralysis that has been so exhaustively studied in Dubliners. Readers confront the tension between inaction and action, the significance of geographies traversed, and the availability of gesture and expression amid transitioning patriarchal, hetero-normative, colonial, and religious forces.” (Bonnie Kime Scott, Professor Emerita, San Diego State University, USA, and the University of Delaware, USA, and author of “Joyce and Feminism and New Alliances in Joyce Studies”)
“After over one hundred years of scholarship, Dubliners criticism has tended to become overly set in its ways. Rethinking "Dubliners” sets out wary of this problem and is determined not to yield to the influence of established stock readings. We have here a set of ten excellent, fresh essays, contributed by eminent Joyceans, treating a variety of issues with originality and vitality.” (John Matthew Morgan, author of “Joyce's City: History, Politics, and Life in Dubliners”)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of English, Kent State University, Kent, USA
Claire A. Culleton
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Department of English/Irish Studies, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, USA
Ellen Scheible
About the editors
Claire A. Culleton is Professor of English at Kent State University, USA. Her books include Names and Naming in Joyce; Working-Class Culture, Women, and Britain, 1914-1921; and Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover’s Manipulation of Modernism. She has also collaborated on two co-edited collections, Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950 and Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive.
Ellen Scheible is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Irish Studies at Bridgewater State University, USA. Her recent publications have appeared in Hypermedia Joyce Studies and New Hibernia Review. She is the president of the New England regional branch of the American Conference for Irish Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Joyce's Dubliners
Editors: Claire A. Culleton, Ellen Scheible
Series Title: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39336-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39335-3Published: 06 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81869-6Published: 17 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39336-0Published: 24 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-3182
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 226
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary History