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Dubliners: A Norton Critical Edition: 0 Paperback – 8 January 2010

by James Joyce (Author), Margot Norris (Author)
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Through what Joyce described as their "style of scrupulous meanness," the stories present a direct, sometimes searing view of Dublin in the early twentieth century. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on renowned Joyce scholar Hans Walter Gabler's edited text and includes his editorial notes and the introduction to his scholarly edition, which details and discusses Dubliners' complicated publication history. "Contexts" offers a rich collection of materials that bring the stories and the Irish capital to life for twenty-first century readers, including photographs, newspaper articles and advertising, early versions of two of the stories, and a satirical poem by Joyce about his publication woes. "Criticism" brings together eight illuminating essays on the most frequently taught stories in Dubliners-"Araby," "Eveline," "After the Race," "The Boarding House," "Counterpoints," "A Painful Case," and "The Dead." Contributors include David G. Wright, Heyward Ehrlich, Margot Norris, James Fairhall, Fritz Senn, Morris Beja, Roberta Jackson, and Vincent J. Cheng.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0393978516
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0393978513
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    *Norton agency titles
  5. Publication date
    8 January 2010
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    12.7 x 2.29 x 21.34 cm
  8. Print length
    412 pages
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James Joyce was one of innovators of postmodernism. He is widely considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Born in Dublin, James Joyce (1882-1941) was a modernist and proponent of the stream-of-consciousness writing style and is widely considered one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His works feature primarily Dublin figures such as in the short story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegan's Wake (1939).

Margot Norris is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of four books on the works of James Joyce: The Decentered Universe of 'Finnegan's Wake', Joyce's Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism, Suspicious Readings of Joyce's 'Dubliners, ' and Ulysses, a study of the 1967 Joseph Strick film on the novel.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ *Norton agency titles; 1st edition (8 January 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 412 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393978516
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393978513
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 2.29 x 21.34 cm
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she_s_tata
5.0 out of 5 stars Ich bin mit dem Buch zufrieden
Reviewed in Germany on 20 November 2017
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Ein sehr gutes Buch! Sollte man etwas nicht verstehen, da Sprache von Joyce nicht ganz alltäglich ist, gibt es viele Erklärungen. Das Buch enthält auch Kritik zu einzelnen Geschichten. Für jeder, der sich mit James Joyce kennenlernen möchte.
Qualität - Preis finde ich gut. Aber man muss etwas vorsichtig mit dem Buch umgehen, damit es nicht auseinanderfällt.
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Christin M. Mulligan
5.0 out of 5 stars An Edition Worthy of These Stories
Reviewed in the United States on 3 August 2015
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This book changed my life because it sat on my grandparents' shelf for years as one of our totems, an emblem of who we are and how important the messy, cathected cultural history of Ireland is to our family. And when I finally read it, Joyce does not idealize Dublin at all, and this frightened me. Furthermore, I think it was the first time I ever encountered a book that challenged me stylistically and interpretively, that was intended to be out of everyone's depth. A professor in undergrad once said I was "marvelously gifted reader of symbolism" (in the context of a disagreement about D.H. Lawrence) but <i> Dubliners </i> simply does not submit to any simple allegorical mappings. It is a text filled with aporias, and that is why I love it. Joyce is work. There are no easy answers. At eighteen, I said to myself, "This is what literature can be: a fantastic puzzle." And I've been hooked ever since.
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Anonymous
5.0 out of 5 stars My copy was in very good condition for a used book
Reviewed in the United States on 9 February 2017
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My copy was in very good condition for a used book. The book itself is great quality- Norton Critical Editions provide excellent footnotes that are especially helpful for interpreting local Dublin slang. Note: The sexual content mentioned mostly is, like so much of the conflict in the Dubliners, implied. However, it would be false to suggest there is no sexual content.
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Lara Ehrlich
5.0 out of 5 stars Man muss es einfach mal lesen!
Reviewed in Germany on 18 December 2013
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Ich vergebe 5 Sterne, weil mir erstens die Texte sehr gefallen haben - ich bin kein Fan von langen ausschweifenden Geschichten - zweitens, weil die Fußnoten doch recht hilfreich sind. Als Joyce-Neuling haben sie mir jedenfalls sehr geholfen.
Für den Einstieg sehr gut geeignet!
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Roland Prosch
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Reviewed in Germany on 22 April 2018
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Zu meinem Bedauern kann ich hierzu nichts mitteilen, da ich den Artikel für eine andere Person geordert habe. Mir ist jedoch nichts Negatives mitgeteilt worden.
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