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After the Race
After the Race and the Origins of Joyce's Art
Arthur Griffith
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Before Daybreak
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Christian orthodoxy
classical rhetoric
classical tradition
Coilin Owens
Dublin
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Florida James Joyce
French tradition
Gordon Bennet Cup Race
intellectual skepticism
intertextual
Irish literature
Irish tradition
Joycean criticism
Joycean scholarship
linguistics
literary criticism
modern rhetoric
morality
narrative technique
nationalism
philosophy
politics
rhetoric
Robert Emmet rebellion
Sebastian Knowles
Product details
- ISBN 9780813042473
- Weight: 654g
- Dimensions: 160 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 26 Feb 2013
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Joyce’s “After the Race” is a seemingly simple tale, historically unloved by critics. Yet when magnified and dismantled, the story yields astounding political, philosophic, and moral intricacy.
In Before Daybreak, Cóilín Owens shows that “After the Race” is much more than a story about Dublin at the time of the 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup Race: in reality, it is a microcosm of some of the issues most central to Joycean scholarship.
These issues include large-scale historical concerns—in this case, radical nationalism and the centennial of Robert Emmet’s rebellion. Owens also explains the temporary and local issues reflected in Joyce’s language, organisation, and silences. He traces Joyce’s narrative technique to classical, French, and Irish traditions. Additionally, “After the Race” reflects Joyce’s internal conflict between emotional allegiance to Christian orthodoxy and contemporary intellectual scepticism.
If the dawning of Joyce’s singular power, range, subtlety, and learning can be identified in a seemingly elementary text like “After the Race,” this study implicitly contends that any Dubliners story can be mined to reveal the intertextual richness, linguistic subtlety, parodic brilliance, and cultural poignancy of Joyce’s art. Owens’s meticulous work will stimulate readers to explore Joyce’s stories with the same scrutiny in order to comprehend and relish how Joyce writes.
In Before Daybreak, Cóilín Owens shows that “After the Race” is much more than a story about Dublin at the time of the 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup Race: in reality, it is a microcosm of some of the issues most central to Joycean scholarship.
These issues include large-scale historical concerns—in this case, radical nationalism and the centennial of Robert Emmet’s rebellion. Owens also explains the temporary and local issues reflected in Joyce’s language, organisation, and silences. He traces Joyce’s narrative technique to classical, French, and Irish traditions. Additionally, “After the Race” reflects Joyce’s internal conflict between emotional allegiance to Christian orthodoxy and contemporary intellectual scepticism.
If the dawning of Joyce’s singular power, range, subtlety, and learning can be identified in a seemingly elementary text like “After the Race,” this study implicitly contends that any Dubliners story can be mined to reveal the intertextual richness, linguistic subtlety, parodic brilliance, and cultural poignancy of Joyce’s art. Owens’s meticulous work will stimulate readers to explore Joyce’s stories with the same scrutiny in order to comprehend and relish how Joyce writes.
Cóilín Owens is professor emeritus of English at George Mason University and author of James Joyce’s Painful Case.
