Gender Roles And Sexual Morality In James Joyces Dubliners

Author : Eleni Papadopoulou
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638883299
Total Pages : 37 pages
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Download or read book Gender Roles and Sexual Morality in James Joyce's 'Dubliners' written by Eleni Papadopoulou and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2-, language: English, abstract: First of all, and before we proceed with the actual description and basic layout of the term paper, it would be quite interesting to cite an extract from a letter that James Joyce himself wrote to his lover and partner Nora Barnacle. "How could I like the idea of home? ... My mother was slowly killed, I think, by my father's ill-treatment, by years of trouble, and by my cynical frankness of conduct. When I looked on her face as she lay in the coffin - a face grey and wasted with cancer- I understood that I was looking on the face of a victim and I cursed the system which had made her a victim." (Letters, II, 48) 1 This quotation roused my interest and became my first motivation concerning the study of gender roles and sexual morality in ' Dubliners', as it summarizes the cruel reality of the position of women at that period of time. In addition to that, it provides us with a general impression of what the situation in Dublin might have been, focusing on the rather inharmonic relations between the two sexes.This small study and description of the gender roles in 'Dubliners' is organized in two main parts. As Joyce's intention was "to write a chapter of the moral history of my [his] country" (D, xxxi), it is essential that the first part provides us with the general historical background of that age. The historical part may conveniently be divided into two sections. The first concerns the roles of both sexes in the Victorian era, whereas the second section brings us closer to the reality of men and women in Ireland, and to be more specific in Dublin. This second section is of great importance, because as already implied by the last quotation, this collection of fifteen short- stories, published in 1914, are expected to mirror the reality of the society of Dublin of that time, and to be more specific, this is done in a very repre

Author : Joseph Valente
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521473691
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Joyce and the Problem of Justice written by Joseph Valente and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of James Joyce to subject his work to ethical and political analysis. It addresses important issues in contemporary literary and cultural studies surrounding problems of justice, as well as discussions of gender, homosociality and the colonial condition. Valente uses an original theory and psychology of justice through which to explore both the well-known and the more obscure of Joyce's works. He traces the remarkable formal and stylistic evolution that defined Joyce's career, and his progressive attempt to negotiate the context of social difference in racial, colonial, class and sexual terms. By analysing Joyce's verbal strategies within both the psychobiographical and sociohistorical contexts, Valente unlocks the politics of Joyce's unconscious and reveals the legacy of Western political thought.

Author : Richard Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521368520
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Joyce and Sexuality written by Richard Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original exploration of Joyce's engagement with sexual questions.

Author : Cathy S. Glass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The role delineation of women in James Joyce's Dubliners written by Cathy S. Glass and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suzette A. Henke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Joyce and the Politics of Desire written by Suzette A. Henke and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joyce and the Politics of Desire offers the first feminist/psychologist re-assessment of the Joycean canon in the wake of Freud, Lacan and Kristeva.

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110749494X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce written by Derek Attridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.

Author : Margot Norris
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202988
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suspicious Readings of Joyce's "Dubliners" written by Margot Norris and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Oona Frawley
Publisher : Lilliput Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
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Download or read book A New & Complex Sensation written by Oona Frawley and published by Lilliput Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eclectic and probing collection of essays celebrates the centenary of the first publication of stories from James Joyce's 'Dubliners' in 1904. Since its publication in book form in 1914, 'Dubliners' has become one of the truly definitive short-story collections in world literature. 'A New and Complex Sensation' presents twenty fresh and exciting perspectives that explore the multiple layers and enduring power of Joyce's short fiction.

Author : Margot Norris
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812237399
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners written by Margot Norris and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Linda J. Zelaites
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Joyce's Dubliners written by Linda J. Zelaites and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: