{"product_id":"suspicious-readings-of-joyces-dubliners-9780812237399","title":"Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners","description":"\u003cp\u003eBecause the stories in James Joyce's \u003ci\u003eDubliners\u003c\/i\u003e 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 how and why the story is told. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a result, one is prompted to look into what is concealed, omitted, or left unspoken, a quest that often produces interpretations in conflict with what the narrative surface suggests about characters and events. Margot Norris's strategy in her analysis of the stories in \u003ci\u003eDubliners\u003c\/i\u003e is to refuse to take the narrative voice for granted and to assume that every authorial decision to include or exclude, or to represent in a particular way, may be read as motivated. \u003ci\u003eSuspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners\u003c\/i\u003e examines the text for counterindictions and draws on the social context of the writing in order to offer readings from diverse theoretical perspectives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners\u003c\/i\u003e devotes a chapter to each of the fifteen stories in Dubliners and shows how each confronts the reader with an interpretive challenge and an intellectual adventure. Its readings of An Encounter, Two Gallants, A Painful Case, A Mother, The Boarding House, and Grace reconceive the stories in wholly novel ways--ways that reveal Joyce's writing to be even more brilliant, more exciting, and more seriously attuned to moral and political issues than we had thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margot Norris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812237399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargot Norris is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of Writing War in the Twentieth Century, Joyce's Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism, and other books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40696631099507,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":91.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f47f320f-873c-42ef-a15d-601cdcf3fc24.jpg?v=1675783375","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/suspicious-readings-of-joyces-dubliners-9780812237399","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}