Dubliners
By: James Joyce ; text, criticism, and notes edited by Robert Scholes and A. Walton Litz.
Contributors: Scholes, Robert E.; Litz, A. Walton.
Edition: Updated and revised edition (15)
Series: The Viking Critical Library
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780140247749
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Joyce, James, 1882-1941; Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction; Dublin (Ireland) -- In literature
Description: This completely updated Viking Critical Library edition of James Joyce's story collection and ade to his native city contains the full text of Dubliners, along with extensive critical and contextual material, including:
Joyce's correspondence with his publisher about the composition of Dubliners, including "A Curious History," Joyce's own "preface" to the work
Earlier drafts of "Eveline," "The Boarding House," and "The Sisters," as well as a facsimile page from the first version of "A Painful Case" written in Joyce's hand
three new essays by Jane. E. Miller, Bruce Avery, and Michael Levenson
Commentary on the use of epiphany in Joyce's work
Essays on the most famous of the Dubliners stories, "The Dead," by Frank O'Connor, Allen Tate, Kenneth Burke, C.C. Loomis and others
An introduction by the editors, a chronology, a list of topics for discussion and papers, and a bibliography
(back cover)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-455).
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