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Synopsis
Table of Contents
Introduction. Rethinking Dubliners: A Case for What Happens in Joyce's Stories by Claire A. Culleton and Ellen Scheible
Chapter 2. "The thin end of the wedge" How Things Start in Dubliners by Claire A. Culleton
Chapter 3. "No There There" Place, Absence, and Negativity in "A Painful Case'"
by Margot Norris
Chapter 4. A "Sensation of Freedom" and the Rejection of Possibility in
by Jim LeBlanc
Chapter 5. "Scudding in towards Dublin" Joyce Studies and the Online Mapping Dubliners Project
by Jasmine Mulliken
Chapter 6. Joyce's Mirror Stages and "The Dead"
by Ellen Scheible
Chapter 7. Joyce's Blinders: an Urban Ecocritical Study of Dubliners and More
by Joseph P. Kelly
Chapter 8. Counterpart's Clashing Cultures: Navigating Among Print, Printing, and Oral Narratives in Turn of the Century Dublin
by Miriam O'Kane Mara
Chapter 9. Intermental Epiphanies: Rethinking Dubliners with Cognitive Psychology
by Martin Brick
Chapter 10. From "spiritual paralysis" to "spiritual liberation" Joyce's Samaritan "Grace"
by Jack Dudley
Chapter 11. Men in Slow Motion: Male Gesture in "Two Gallants"
by Enda Duffy
Synopsis
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since its publication more than a century ago, many readers and teachers of the stories still rely on and embrace old, outdated readings that invoke metaphors of paralysis and stagnation to understand the book.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.