Before daybreak [electronic resource] : "After the Race" and the origins of Joyce's art / Coilin Owens ; foreword by Sebastian D.G. Knowles.
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- 9780813042688
- 823/.912 23
- PR6019.O9 Z7474 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The automobile age -- The biographical crisis -- Arthur Griffith and the great game -- Robert Emmet centennial -- Rhetoric: modern and classical -- The infernal -- Conclusion.
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.
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