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