{"product_id":"dubliners-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393978513","title":"Dubliners: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"Through what Joyce described as their \"style of scrupulous meanness,\" the stories present a direct, sometimes searing view of Dublin in the early twentieth century. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on renowned Joyce scholar Hans Walter Gabler's edited text and includes his editorial notes and the introduction to his scholarly edition, which details and discusses \u003cem\u003eDubliners\u003c\/em\u003e' complicated publication history. \"Contexts\" offers a rich collection of materials that bring the stories and the Irish capital to life for twenty-first century readers, including photographs, newspaper articles and advertising, early versions of two of the stories, and a satirical poem by Joyce about his publication woes. \"Criticism\" brings together eight illuminating essays on the most frequently taught stories in \u003cem\u003eDubliners\u003c\/em\u003e--\"Araby,\" \"Eveline,\" \"After the Race,\" \"The Boarding House,\" \"Counterpoints,\" \"A Painful Case,\" and \"The Dead.\" Contributors include David G. Wright, Heyward Ehrlich, Margot Norris, James Fairhall, Fritz Senn, Morris Beja, Roberta Jackson, and Vincent J. Cheng.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoyce, James:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJames Joyce\u003c\/strong\u003e was one of innovators of postmodernism. He is widely considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Born in Dublin, James Joyce (1882-1941) was a modernist and proponent of the stream-of-consciousness writing style and is widely considered one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His works feature primarily Dublin figures such as in the short story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922) and Finnegan's Wake (1939).\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorris, Margot:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMargot Norris\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of four books on the works of James Joyce: \u003cem\u003eThe Decentered Universe of 'Finnegan's Wake'\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJoyce's Web: The Social Unraveling of Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSuspicious Readings of Joyce's 'Dubliners, '\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e, a study of the 1967 Joseph Strick film on the novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50411082252562,"sku":"9780393978513","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4cf2e2b7-338a-4804-b3fb-6ce38f05f00f.jpg?v=1748520117","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dubliners-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393978513","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}