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Dubliners

A Norton Critical Edition
By James Joyce
Series: Norton Critical Editions
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Dubliners offers a piercing, unvarnished portrayal of early twentieth-century Dublin through a series of interconnected short stories. Written with what Joyce called a "style of scrupulous meanness," the collection exposes the complexities and quiet dramas of everyday life in Ireland's capital, capturing its atmosphere with remarkable clarity and depth.
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This edition is ideal for students, scholars, and readers interested in Irish literature and modernist writing. It offers valuable scholarly apparatus to support educational use, making it particularly suited for those studying James Joyce or the historical and cultural context of Dublin in the early 1900s.

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Dubliners

Dubliners is arguably the best-known and most influential collection of short stories written in English, and has been since its publication in 1914.

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Through what Joyce described as their "style of scrupulous meanness," the stories present a direct, sometimes searing view of Dublin in the early twentieth century. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on renowned Joyce scholar Hans Walter Gabler's edited text and includes his editorial notes and the introduction to his scholarly edition, which details and discusses Dubliners' complicated publication history.

"Contexts" offers a rich collection of materials that bring the stories and the Irish capital to life for twenty-first century readers, including photographs, newspaper articles and advertising, early versions of two of the stories, and a satirical poem by Joyce about his publication woes.

"Criticism" brings together eight illuminating essays on the most frequently taught stories in Dubliners—"Araby," "Eveline," "After the Race," "The Boarding House," "Counterparts," "A Painful Case," and "The Dead." Contributors include David G. Wright, Heyward Ehrlich, Margot Norris, James Fairhall, Fritz Senn, Morris Beja, Roberta Jackson, and Vincent J. Cheng.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393978513

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 January 2006

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Edition: Critical edition

Illustration: 8 maps; 20 illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Margot Norris

Audience: Adult education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 339g

Pages: 412

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Education & Reference James Joyce Non-Fiction Series: Norton Critical Editions

About the Author

James Joyce was one of innovators of postmodernism. He is widely considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Born in Dublin, James Joyce (1882–1941) was a modernist and proponent of the stream-of-consciousness writing style and is widely considered one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His works feature primarily Dublin figures such as in the short story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegan's Wake (1939). Margot Norris is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of four books on the works of James Joyce: The Decentered Universe of ’Finnegan’s Wake’, Joyce’s Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism, Suspicious Readings of Joyce’s ’Dubliners,’ and Ulysses, a study of the 1967 Joseph Strick film on the novel.

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