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"I call the series Dubliners to betray the soul of that hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city." --James Joyce, Aug1904"The Dublin papers will object to my stories as to a caricature of Dublin life... At times the spirit directing my pen seems to me so plainly mischievous that I am almost prepared to let the Dublin critics have their way." --JAJ Jul1905
"I think people might be willing to pay for the special odour of corruption which, I hope, floats over my stories." --JAJ Oct1905
"I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness..." --JAJ May1906
"I believe that in composing my chapter of moral history in exactly the way I have composed it I have taken the first step towards the spiritual liberation of my country." --JAJ May1906
Etexts:
Except for my version (links below), all Dubliners etexts on the Web seem to be of the 1914 edition, with 'inverted commas' for dialog: HTML of indiv. chapters, scholarly, tiny font, annoying background, single HTML file, ditto, annoying SGML version, PDF.
(My versions use dialog-dashes, and occasionally simplify the use of commas and semicolons. Marginal numbers are pagenumbers from Viking's Portable James Joyce.) [Amazon]
MP3 and RealAudio: The Sisters
Map of settings
Best single resource: Extensive study guide; another
Summary; intro, short summaries
Publishing history.
History of short story genre
Chatboards: ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto
General essays: Poncy intro essay; Women in Dubliners; misc essays; MS Word format; course notes; epiphanies; character
Bibliographies:
Offline articles, books; short annotated bibliography of useful books
Brother Stanislaus Joyce's 'Recollections' [p20] claims the scheme of Dubliners is a series of pairs of stories on the themes of: adolescent life, sporting life, artistic life, amorous life, political life, religious life, and celibate life (male and female), plus four 'petty employees' (two married and two unmarried), plus the final story on 'holiday life'.
1.The Sisters
"Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism.""He had studied in the Irish college in Rome and he had taught me to pronounce Latin properly."
"When he smiled he used to uncover his big discoloured teeth and let his tongue lie upon his lower lip-- a habit which had made me feel uneasy in the beginning of our acquaintance, before I knew him well."
"He was too scrupulous always, she said. The duties of the priesthood was too much for him."
Etexts: final; 1904 (as published), 1905 manuscript, [compare]
MP3 and RealAudio; another RealAudio version
Map: Flynn's Drapery = 'F95'
Info: gnomon; High Toast
Best: Detailed study with early versions
"I was surprised at this sentiment and involuntarily glanced at his face. As I did so I met the gaze of a pair of bottle-green eyes peering at me from under a twitching forehead."
Map: Dodder field = 'Enc' [old pix]
Current map
Info: National School; miching
The Scott-fan turns up again in Portrait: [etext]
"Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door. The blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that I could not be seen."
Map: N Richmond = 'J96' (Joyce was really living at 'J93' and Mangan/Sheehy at 'Sh' when the bazaar was held 15-19 May 1894 [more]); bazaar-site = 'Ab'
Pic of site
Etext: Arab's Farewell
Collaborative hypertext experiment incl detailed hypertext annotations
Awesome annotated bibliography
4. Eveline
"She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from."
Interview with one model for Eveline
Lyric&MIDI: Lass that loves a Sailor ditto
"Derevaun Seraun" might be Irish for:
- 'The end of pleasure is pain'
- 'Fairwell to the white oak-woods'
- 'My own little one, grasp my hand'
- 'There is one end: maggots'
- 'The end of the free person'
- 'Bloodline and bread(line)'
- 'There was an ounce of bread'
- 'The real laughingstock'
- 'The right louse'
- 'The end of song is derangement'
- 'Certain is the furnace'
- 'The only end is westwards'
Thomas Moore's Eveleen's Bower
"In one of these trimly built cars was a party of four young men whose spirits seemed to be at present well above the level of successful Gallicism: in fact, these four young men were almost hilarious."
Map: Inchicore
Cadet Rouselle: [info]; French lyric and MIDI
(I suspect Joyce wrote this story as a meditation on his father's youth, and how he'd managed to squander the family fortune.)
"The girl brought him a plate of hot grocer's peas seasoned with pepper and vinegar, a fork and his ginger beer. He ate his food greedily and found it so good that he made a note of the shop mentally."
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Waterhouse's clock = 'c'
Moore's Silent, O Moyle: [RealAud]
Pic of College of Surgeons
Henry Flower connection
Finnegans Wake: the cad shares Lenehan's coat: carryin his overgoat under his schulder and taste for peas: a supreme of excelling peas.
"Her eyes, which were grey with a shade of green through them, had a habit of glancing upwards when she spoke with anyone, which made her look like a little perverse madonna.""She dealt with moral problems as a cleaver deals with meat: and in this case she had made up her mind."
Map: 'J03'
Info: Reynolds's
Italian translation probably done with Joyce's help (only Joyce would have dared to rename it (Petals of the Orange-Blossom?) and add a new last sentence about those petals.
Ulysses: Doran
"That bloody little sleepwalking bitch he married. Mooney, the bailiff's daughter. The mother kept a kind of a kip in Hardwicke Street. He was damn well had anyhow. Ask Bantam Lyons. Walking about the house at two in the morning in her shift. Open to all comers. A fair field and no favour." [Cyclops draft]
names:
Polly Mooney = childhood friend of Nora's [e198]
characters:
Cockney English teacher at Trieste Berlitz, his landlady and her daughter [e198 via Stannie]
8. A Little Cloud
"He tried to weigh his soul to see if it was a poet's soul. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.""I mean to marry money. She'll have a good fat account at the bank or she won't do for me."
"I have come to the conclusion that it is about time I made up my mind whether I am to become a writer or a patient Cousins." --JAJ to Stannie, March 1907 (James Cousins was the Dublin friend who most inspired Little Chandler.)
Map: 'KI' (King's Inns)
Pic of King's Inns
Etext: Byron's poem
Info: Atalanta
"His body ached to do something, to rush out and revel in violence.""O, pa! he cried. Don't beat me, pa!"
Farrington of Crosbie & Alleyne is comparable to Richie Goulding (aka Wm Murray) of Collis & Ward in Ulysses (and real life)
Map: 'WM' (Farrington's house)
Info: Apollinaris
earlier titles: Christmas Eve [fragment], Hallow Eve, The Clay
"In a few minutes the women began to come in by twos and threes, wiping their steaming hands in their petticoats and pulling down the sleeves of their blouses over their red steaming arms. They settled down before their huge mugs which the cook and the dummy filled up with hot tea, already mixed with milk and sugar in huge tin cans."
This one was rejected by Russell at the Irish Homestead. It anticipates "The Dead" in some ways.
See family tree under 'The Dead' below # for relationship to Joyce.
Commentary; explication; symbolism
Map: 'Ab' (laundry); 'Mu' (Joe's)
Info: barmbrack; Magdalene laundries
Pic: Maria's nose
Marble Halls: Lyric and MIDI [RealAudio] swing version [GIF of music] [info]
"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse, and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.""They had been married for twenty-two years and had lived happily until about two years ago when his wife began to be rather intemperate in her habits."
Map: Chapelizod; Phoenix park
Pix: mentioned station; 'Duffy'; Stannie
Bile beans: fansite
While Joyce was writing this, he was taking voice lessons in Trieste from Giuseppe Sinico
12. Ivy Day In The Committee Room
"God forgive me, he added, I thought he was the dozen of stout.""In a few minutes an apologetic Pok! was heard as the cork flew out of Mr Lyons' bottle."
Map: 'Iv'
Ivy Day 2000
"She called Mr Fitzpatrick away from his screen and told him that her daughter had signed for four concerts and that of course, according to the terms of the contract, she should receive the sum originally stipulated for, whether the society gave the four concerts or not."
Map: 'Ac'
Joseph Holloway witnessed the 27 Aug 1904 concert that inspired this story, Joyce having to accompany himself on 'Croppy Boy' and 'In Her Simplicity' [cpc45]
"His line of life had not been the shortest distance between two points and for short periods he had been driven to live by his wits.""I remember reading, said Mr Cunningham, that one of Pope Leo's poems was on the invention of the photograph-- in Latin, of course."
"God! he exclaimed, resuming his natural face, I never saw such an eye in a man's head. It was as much as to say: I have you properly taped, my lad. He had an eye like a hawk."
The little chap who deserted Kernan is probably Little Chandler. James Joyce's brother Stanislaus suggests this was based on a retreat their father took in April 1903, while Kernan was based on a neighbor, Ned Thornton.
Etexts: Pope Leo on photography, 'mottoes', Vatican Council; Luke 16; Jesuit history
Pix: Shakespeare; St Francis Xavier's ditto
Medical interpretation, religious; equivocation
"The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.""The only persons who seemed to follow the music were Mary Jane herself, her hands racing along the key-board or lifted from it at the pauses like those of a priestess in momentary imprecation, and Aunt Kate standing at her elbow to turn the page."
"On the closed square piano a pudding in a huge yellow dish lay in waiting, and behind it were three squads of bottles of stout and ale and minerals drawn up according to the colours of their uniforms, the first two black with brown and red labels, the third and smallest squad white with transverse green sashes."
"There was grace and mystery in her attitude as if she were a symbol of something. He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of."
"I was great with him at that time, she said."
Best resource: notes for annotated text
Map: 'Ush' (Usher's Island), 'Gh' (Gresham hotel). Also: Monkstown; Oughterard and Galway
Family trees:
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FICTIONAL FACTUAL
Patrick Morkan Patrick Flynn
Pat Pat
Mary Jane Ellen (Callanan)
Kate Mary Ellen
Julia Julia (Lyons)
Freddy
Margaret (Murray)
Ellen May (Joyce)
Gabriel James
Tom Giorgio
Eva Lucia
Constantine Stanislaus
Mary (O'Donohoe)
Maria [of 'Clay']Pix: Morkans' [current fate], waistcoat, King Billy ditto, Gresham, ditto
Etexts: Bret Harte's Gabriel Conroy opening par; Joyce's Rahoon poem; Lass of Aughrim lyrics, Arrayed for the Bridal lyrics; Pope Pius on women
'journey westward': [debate]
RealAudio: Arrayed? (the selection from Bellini's Puritani)
Info: Nora; Daily Express; Mt Melleray
Essays: Music and Language in The Dead; cinematic techniques; as post-colonial; Lacanian; gender politics
blurb for a psychoanalytic reading
Movie version: IMDb entry; essay (and part two)
Broadway musical version: Salon preview, details, reviews; official site; review, ditto
"It is my intention... to follow [Dubliners] by a book 'Provincials'." -- JAJ 12July1905
Stories never written: "The Last Supper" (about Joe McKernan), "The Street", "Vengeance", "At Bay", "Catharsis"
A sixteenth story was finally finished in 1922: "Ulysses" (conceived 30 Sept 1906) [more]
Summaries (partial)
Modern typology of Dubliners
A famous Irish band of the same name
Ulysses:
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