Dubliners Summary
James Joyce

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Dubliners Summary & Study Guide
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Dubliners Summary

Dubliners is a short-story cycle, but unlike other such cycles, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919), for instance, or Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, its stories are not linked by recurring characters, but by theme and setting, two elements that are intimately related in this collection. Joyce's initial intention, as he explained in a letter to the publisher Grant Richards, was to hold a mirror up to Dublin, to present as realistic a portrait...

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Encyclopedia Articles (1)

Dubliners

3,510 words, approx. 12 pages

Dubliners by James Joyce James Augustine Joyce, who revolutionized English literature with his shocking language and literary style, was born February 2, 1882, in a Dublin suburb. The oldest son in... Read more

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Dubliners

76,553 words, approx. 256 pages

THE SISTERS There was no hope for him this time:  it was the third stroke.  Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window:  an... Read more

James Joyce Biographies (7)

James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce

5,721 words, approx. 20 pages

James Joyce is generally regarded as this century's greatest prose stylist in English. The basis of this judgment is the extraordinary achievement of but three novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Yo... Read more

James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce

3,123 words, approx. 11 pages

Considered by many critics as the major writer of the twentieth century, James Joyce is nonetheless a minor poet both in the quantity and quality of his verse. The second of the ten children of John a... Read more

James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce

12,864 words, approx. 43 pages

Few writers have as secure a claim to be the major figure of the modernist period in literary history as James Joyce, a position that he prepared himself for with diligence and commitment. During his ... Read more

James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce

14,270 words, approx. 48 pages

Rather than forging radically new means for fiction, the novels of James Joyce--A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939)--as well as his single short-s... Read more

James Joyce

1,788 words, approx. 6 pages

The fiction of the Irish author James Joyce (1882-1941) is characterized by experiments with language, symbolism, and use of the narrative techniques of interior monologue and stream of consciousness.... Read more

James Joyce

6,394 words, approx. 22 pages

James Joyce is a monument of modernism in literature. In the opening passage of his biography, James Joyce, Richard Ellmann aptly summarized the writer's impact on twentieth-century letters, "We are s... Read more

James Joyce

13,880 words, approx. 47 pages

Biography EssayFew writers have as secure a claim to be the major figure of the modernist period in literary history as James Joyce, a position that he prepared himself for with diligence and commitme... Read more

Essays & Analysis (9)

Critical Essay by Martin F. Kearney

5,251 words, approx. 18 pages

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Critical Essay by Adrian Hunter

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Critical Essay by Mamta Chaudhry-Fryer

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Critical Essay by Kevin J. H. Dettmar

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Barefoot and Pregnant in the Dubliners

1,255 words, approx. 5 pages

The roles of women in Dublin during the 1800's were very different from the roles women have today. Women are no longer expected to complete housework or cook dinner every night. The pressures for w... Read more

Ironical Structures in Dubliners

1,414 words, approx. 5 pages

Irony :An expression intended to convey the opposite to the literal meaning; language having a meaning or implication for those who understand different from the ostensible one, or different from that... Read more

The Use of Mystery in Two 'Dubliners' Stories

1,618 words, approx. 6 pages

James Joyce once compared his method of writing with the religious ceremony of the Eucharist: 'Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying ... Read more

Dubliners

697 words, approx. 3 pages

Every author's writing reflects some part about themselves and their childhood. Author James Joyce's stories The Encounter and Araby give the reader an idea about the Dublin of his youth. By the way... Read more

Dubliners by James Joyce

591 words, approx. 2 pages

Although "Araby", "Eveline", and "The Dead" from Dubliners by James Joyce are three different stories, the author uses similar elements to convey each message, and so develops a strong connection ... Read more

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