Family Resemblances in Dubliners

Dubliners is a dark box full of infinite echoes. Voices, characters, actions, and situations echo one another from start to finish; indeed, we might say that in Joyce's Dublin nothing happens only once, so that even the most surprising and shocking events are not really unique but merely apparently new outbreaks of what is eventually revealed as an old virus. Even when, for instance, Corley opens his hand to reveal the gold sovereign, we are not really surprised, even if we had been led to be..

Joycean Collective Memories II

Several authors, among the most distinguished Joycean scholars, explore the topic of memory in (and of) the Joycean ouvre and community