Suspicious Readings of Joyce's "Dubliners" (Hardcover, New)

Suspicious Readings of Joyce's "Dubliners" Margot Norris "A sophisticated, provocative, and thoroughly original approach to Joyce's stories, especially to the peculiarities of their narrative style. It is difficult to think of another book on Joyce published over the last fifteen years of comparable significance."--Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania Because the stories in James Joyce's "Dubliners" seem to function as models of fiction, they are able to stand in for fiction in general in their ability to make the operation of texts explicit and visible. Joyce's stories do this by provoking skepticism in the face of their storytelling. Their narrative unreliabilities--produced by strange gaps, omitted scenes, and misleading narrative prompts--arouse suspicion and oblige the reader to distrust how and why the story is told. As a result, one is prompted to look into what is concealed, omitted, or left unspoken, a quest that often produces interpretations in conflict with what the narrative surface suggests about characters and events. Margot Norris's strategy in her analysis of the stories in "Dubliners" is to refuse to take the narrative voice for granted and to assume that every authorial decision to include or exclude, or to represent in a particular way, may be read as motivated. "Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners" examines the text for counterindictions and draws on the social context of the writing in order to offer readings from diverse theoretical perspectives. "Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners" devotes a chapter to each of the fifteen stories in Dubliners and shows how each confronts the reader with an interpretive challenge and an intellectual adventure. Its readings of "An Encounter," "Two Gallants," "A Painful Case," "A Mother," "The Boarding House," and "Grace" reconceive the stories in wholly novel ways--ways that reveal Joyce's writing to be even more brilliant, more exciting, and more seriously attuned to moral and political issues than we had thought. Margot Norris is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of "Writing War in the Twentieth Century," "Joyce's Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism," and other books. 2003 296 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 ISBN 978-0-8122-3739-9 Cloth $59.95s 39.00 World Rights Literature

General

Imprint:	University of PennsylvaniaPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	Margot Norris
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	296
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8122-3739-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-8122-3739-0
Barcode:	9780812237399

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