Owens, Cóilín.

Before daybreak : "After the Race" and the origins of Joyce's art / Coilin Owens ; foreword by Sebastian D.G. Knowles. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2012. - 1 online resource - The Florida James Joyce series .

Includes bibliographies 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.



9780813042688 9781299818514


Joyce, James, 1882-1941 --Criticism and interpretation.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941 --


Electronic Books.

PR6019 / .B446 2012