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Before daybreak : "After the Race" and the origins of Joyce's art /

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A close examination of the story "After the Race," which originally appeared in Dubliners that argues that the story represents a microcosm of some of the issues most central to Joyce scholarship, evolution as an artist, the Catholic Church and nostalgia for a rapidly changing Ireland.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Owens, Cóilín
Other Authors: Knowles, Sebastian D. G. (Sebastian David Guy)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
Series:Florida James Joyce series.
Subjects:
Joyce, James, > 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation.
Joyce, James, > 1882-1941. > Dubliners.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The automobile age
  • The biographical crisis
  • Arthur Griffith and the great game
  • Robert Emmet centennial
  • Rhetoric: modern and classical
  • The infernal
  • Conclusion.