ENGL 363-01, James Joyce's Dubliners in Context, Fall 2012

Abstract

This course will focus on James Joyce’s Dubliners (1914), the modernist Irish author’s masterful collection of fifteen stories set in the Irish metropolis in the early years of the twentieth century. These stories—which take aim at Joyce’s compatriots, and in particular at their self-destructive idealizations of the Irish family, state, religion, school, and pub--will be explored within the context of various socio-historical, political, literary, and biographical matrices as well as within the context of other works by Joyce and other authors.