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About the Author

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James Joyce was one of the most celebrated and influential English-language writers of the 20th century, and his later works of fiction, Ulysses (1922) and […]

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Overview

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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 […]

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Setting

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The title of the volume immediately draws our attention to the importance of the setting-both place and time unites these diverse stories. Joyce creates a […]

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Themes and Characters

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While there are no recurring characters in Dubliners, Joyce does appear to have envisioned the collection as a single work that would expose the city’s […]

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Literary Qualities

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Discussions of Joyce’s earlier fiction, Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, frequently center on those moments in which characters achieve […]

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Social Sensitivity

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In a 1905 letter to Grant Richards, Joyce related his surprise that “no artist has given Dublin to the world,” despite its antiquity, its size, […]

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Topics for Discussion

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1. Only the first three stories in the collection, the ones dealing with childhood, have first-person narrators; the remainder are told in the third-person. Why […]

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Ideas for Reports and Papers

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1. The titles of the stories are not always straightforward descriptions of their contents, but they are often suggestive and worthy of careful consideration. Consider […]

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Related Titles and Adaptations

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One well-known American work that bears comparison with Dubliners is Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio (1919), a collection of short stories based on the author’s experiences […]