Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners

by Margot Norris

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812237390
• ISBN13: 9780812237399
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"