Joyce Dubliners

Wilhelm, Beate: Joyce's style of 'scrupulous meanness' in his literary work "Dubliners" GRIN VERLAG, November 2007, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3638782808
Scholarly Paper aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 2, Veranstaltung: Proseminar Irish Author Studies, 5 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Anmerkungen: This essay aims to examine James Joyce's method of 'scrupulous meanness' in two short stories chosen from the collection of Dubliners: 'The Sisters' and 'The Dead'. In addition, Joyce's attempt of conveying a temper of death and hopelessness shall find access into the discussion. , Abstract: When in 1914 James Joyce wanted to have his literary work Dubliners published by the British publisher Grant Richards, it was not at all as easy as Joyce had imagined. Before Richards could accept the work changes had to be applied that were accompanied by an exchange of various letters between author and publisher. The reason for Richard's hesitation to publish the book in its first version was the very accuracy of its language. Literary conventions would have been shocked by Joyce's accurate and entirely realistic description of social situations and psychological states.In his letter to Grant Richards Joyce tries to justify his style, and it is thus that he speaks of 'scrupulous meanness' for the first time. The term 'meanness' connotes stinginess or the lack of generosity. Joyce uses it to describe the economy of language applying to his stories. However, the interpretation demands a more complicated understanding of the term. 'Scrupulousness' is a crucial element both in Joyce's use of language, and in the structure and form of the stories. 'Scrupulous meanness' refers to a most complex and heavily allusive style that determines the reading of Dubliners. From the minimum of words Joyce succeeds to extract the maximum effect so that the very economy of his style gives Dubliners such concentration and resonance that it passes through realism into symbolism (Dubliners,1991, p. xix). Joyce puts this style forward as a means to express his moral intent.This essay aims to examine James Joyce's method of 'scrupulous meanness' in two short stories chosen from the collection of Dubliners: 'The Sisters' and 'The Dead'. In addition, Joyce's attempt of conveying a temper of death and hopelessness shall find access into the discussion.

NEUBUCH! 2007. 32 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 2 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V65793

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Hermans, Julia: Astonied in Dublin: An Analogy of the Relationships in James Joyce's Dubliners "Eveline" and "A Painful Case" GRIN VERLAG, Februar 2011, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640834011
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, einseitig bedruckt, Note: -, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: James Joyce's book Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories and, as the name already tells, they are about the lives of people living in Dublin. The novellas are about men and women of every age. In the book are different stages of life. The story Eveline is a childhood story. The story A Painful Case is an adulthood story. Terence Brown describes the work as a book of churches (Brown XXX). For Joyce, church and faith are very important, and Dublin and its citizens are characterized by the Christian religion. Although the stories are all self-contained, the book can be read as a whole. As the reader will notice by reading there are many links between the different stories and they take place in the same city -Dublin. When James Joyce wrote the book, he had already left Ireland for France in order to study medicine. This could be a possible hint to why the book can, on the one hand, be seen as a book about Dubliners by a Dubliner but, on the other hand, it can be also seen as a book about Dublin from an outside perspective. David G. Wright emphasises that Dubliners shows how Joyce himself could have become if he had stayed in the capital of Ireland (Wright 14). Therefore, the book can be seen as an explanation and if there has to be one, as an apology for James Joyce, why he decided to leave Ireland. As Andrew Gibson states, the paralysis of the lives of the Dubliners, which is shown by Joyce, is post-catastrophic (Gibson 76), referring to the famine that brought many Irish into poverty.This paper takes a closer look at the two stories Eveline and A Painful Case. The autobiographical aspect becomes obvious because David G. Wright writes that the main characters of these two stories are created after the model of James Joyce's siblings Margaret and Stanislaus (Wright 22/23). Furthermore, as it will be examined in this paper, Dubliners relates Joyce's own feelings about Dublin. Eveline tries to flee from Dublin and her family, unlike Mr. Duffy, the main character of A Painful Case, who is a loner and who is content to remain just where and how he is..

NEUBUCH! 2011. 40 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 3 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V167025

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van Rhee, Kirsten Vera: James Joyce: The Situation of Women in "Dubliners" in special View of "Eveline" Approaches to Dubliners, GRIN VERLAG, Juli 2011, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640954858
Seminar paper from the year 1994 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, printed single-sided, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Englische Philologie), language: English, comment: Good - excellent hold of English language! , abstract: 1. Introduction.When James Joyce had finally completed Dubliners in 1908, he himself considered his first work of fiction, a collection of fifteen short stories, to be a scrupulously realistic portrait of the Irish middle-class society of his time - a looking-glass in which the people of Dublin could see themselves and their paralysis. To introduce the book's major theme of paralysis, Joyce wrote the following critical commentary on Dubliners : My intention was to write a chapter of moral history of my own country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The stories are arranged in this order. I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness... All of the characters in Dubliners are embedded in life's chronology, ranging from young to old and everyone is a typical portrayal of the ordinary people caught in everyday situations. They all have to endure the progressive diminution of life and vitality in the morbid and constrictive society of Dublin, in which human relations become distorted and escape seems to be impossible. In Dubliners, men and women are equally depicted as victims of their social and economic milieu, but the realistic picture Joyce drew of the situation of his female characters shows that women were even more affected by the narrow confines of a rather male dominant society. This paper is an attempt to picture Joyce's female Dubliners in their oppressive environment, mainly focusing on Joyce's Eveline as an all-encompassing representative of women's suffering in nineteenth-century Dublin.

NEUBUCH! 2011. 64 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 4 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V174842 .

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Klein, Thorsten: An analysis of the short story 'The Dead' by James Joyce, GRIN VERLAG; GRIN VERLAG, November 2007, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3638776565
Scholarly Paper (Advanced Seminar) aus dem Jahr 2000 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,0, Universität Flensburg (Englisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Literature, Culture and Politics in Modern Ireland , 12 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Abstract: Opening remarkDubliners is a study on human behaviour, human values and communication. The book describes and brings to life the city of Dublin, the hometown of James Joyce, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The collection is a mix of social realism and literary imagination. Each of the 15 stories is set against a background of real names, streets, shops, pubs and icons. It also comes alive through the biographical references to Joyce's life. That is the reason why I decided to place the biography of James Joyce before my analysis in this paper.I chose the story The Dead because it seems to stand out of the short- story collection Dubliners. The Dead had not been composed when Joyce divulged that the course of the collection must be seen under the loose- knit general plan of a human lifecycle: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The story also stands out of the collection because of the story's length, tone and positioning in the book. It was the last story he wrote for Dubliners in 1906/ 07, when he had already left Ireland. Before that, it was obvious that Joyce was very sceptical of the Irish Renaissance and the Irish literary revival, although the revival s outstanding poet, W. B. Yeats, influenced Joyce's writing in the first years. He felt Ireland's future lays within the European intellectual and cultural community. Joyce became increasingly impatient with Ireland's parochialism and turned toward Europe, he and his wife Nora moved to the Continent. Now a change of attitude towards Ireland and Dublin, manifested in the story The Dead, can be observed. He wrote his brother Stanislaus in a letter the whole collection of Dubliners would be incomplete without this new feelings toward his hometown. The author's view is not only desperate and without prospect, it has softened [Joyce, 1991; p. 47]. The stories in Dubliners can be read on two levels. [...]

NEUBUCH! 2007. 60 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 4 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V62417

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