{"product_id":"suspicious-readings-of-joyces-dubliners-hardcover","title":"Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMargot Norris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuspicious 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 Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania Because the stories in James Joyce's \u003ci\u003eDubliners\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eDubliners\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eSuspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners\u003c\/i\u003e examines the text for counterindictions and draws on the social context of the writing in order to offer readings from diverse theoretical perspectives. \u003ci\u003eSuspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cb\u003eMargot Norris\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of \u003ci\u003eWriting War in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJoyce's Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargot 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.1 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450508099762,"sku":"9780812237399","price":107.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/4e9320a607dbdc5b82621136b47e0b04.webp?v=1778787088","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/suspicious-readings-of-joyces-dubliners-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}