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For Joyce's contemporaneous audience, the term "counterparts" could be expected to suggest (hand-written) duplicate copies of legal documents. [1] At the story's end, Farrington, “the man” is seen to be the "counterpart" of Mr. Alleyne, his superior at his workplace, since he abuses his child at home, just as Mr. Alleyne abuses him at the office.
Critical analysis of elements of stories or stories in their entirety has been problematic. Dubliners may have occasioned more conflicting interpretations than any other modern literary work. [31] It's been said that Dubliners is unique, defying any form of classification, and perhaps no interpretation can ever be conclusive. The only certainty ...
Hugh Kenner found "Grace" "as subversive a story as any Dubliners contains: the story against which Irish Catholic opinion should have expended its animus". [2] According to Stanislaus Joyce , the three parts of the story recall the tripartite structure of Dante's Divine Comedy ("inferno-purgatorio-paradiso"). [ 3 ]
At the beginning of the story, before the characters are introduced, the cars speed through Inchicore, and the writer's own voice remarks that "through this channel of poverty and inaction the Continent sped its wealth and industry" and the Irish onlookers raise "the cheer of the gratefully oppressed."
"A Little Cloud" is a short story by James Joyce, first published in his 1914 collection Dubliners. It contrasts the life of the protagonist, Little Chandler, a Dubliner who remained in the city and married, with the life of his old friend Ignatius Gallaher, who had left Ireland to find success and excitement as a journalist and bachelor in London.
Counterparts is a 1998 American spy thriller novel written by Gonzalo Lira. Shortly after he graduated from Dartmouth College in October 1996, at age 28, Lira received a million dollar advance from G. P. Putnam's Sons. The unsolicited manuscript for Counterparts had been pulled from a slush pile by a literary agent and forwarded to editors at ...
"Ivy Day in the Committee Room" is a short story by James Joyce published in his 1914 collection Dubliners. Taking place in a political party office after a day of canvassing, the story depicts various campaigners discussing the political candidates and issues of Irish nationalism and Home Rule.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.