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Works of James Joyce: Dubliners, 1914.

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Joyce, James

Joyce, James
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Dubliners, 1914.

This collection of short stories describes what Joyce saw as the "moral
paralysis" of a nation: its bewitchment by the clergy and its bondage to both
English tyranny and to its own sense of the past. Although Joyce's model in
the Naturalistic sketches is not so much Thomas Moore as Ibsen, recent critics
have found a great deal of abstruse symbolism in Joyce's eminently realistic
details.

Some of the more famous stories in Dubliners include "The Sisters," in
which a young boy is initiated into the world of repressive Dublin Catholicism
...

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