Australian cultural studies

Description

The harvest of a long and deep acquaintance with Joyce's fifteen enigmatic stories of Dublin life, Narrative Con/Texts in "Dubliners" creatively widens the definition of "context" to include networks of theme and symbol. By treating Dubliners as an expanding document of lives in the process of being lived and by paying attention to how the boundaries between stories break down, Benstock is able to notice how characters and situations come uncannily to resemble each other. There are several innovative approaches here (for example, the thorough inspection of the economic conditions of Joyce's Dublin, down to the halfpenny) as well as new twists on established ideas. Benstock attempts a global, integrated reading of the stories, substituting his more holistic "con/texts" for the current fashion of context-hunting. His is an old ambition (for full coverage) in a new, upbeat format.

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Other Editions

• Australian cultural studies: a readerUniversity of Illinois Press1993-01-01
• Australian Cultural StudiesHardcoverUniversity of Illinois Press1993-10-01
• Australian Cultural StudiesPaperbackUniversity of Illinois Press1993-10-01
• Narrative con/texts in DublinersUniversity of Illinois Press1994-01-01
• Narrative Con/Texts in DublinersPaperbackPalgrave Macmillan1994-01-01
• Narrative con/texts in DublinersUniversity of Illinois Press1994-01-01