NARRATIVE CON /TEXTS IN DUBLINERS

NARRATIVE CON /TEXTS IN DUBLINERS

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Narrative Con/Texts in Dubliners BERNARD BENSTOCK Professor of English University of Miami M MACMILLAN

Bernard Benstock 1994 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1 st edition 1994 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and dvil claims for damages. First published 1994 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 978-1-349-13127-3 ISBN 978-1-349-13125-9 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-13125-9 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

To Shari who doubles as "distant music" and with thanks again to Belinda Ghitis and Zack Bowen

Contents Acknowledgements A Note on the Text viii ix Introduction: A Confluence of Texts 1 1 Narrative Strategies: The Teller in the Dubliners Tale 8 2 Narrative Gnomonics: The Spectres in the Tales 32 3 Symbolic Systems: Correspondences in the Tales 58 4 Pounds/Shillings/Pence: The Economics in the Tales 84 5 Double Binds: Talismans of Immaturity 109 6 Duplicitous Bonds: Talents of Maturity 127 Index 167 vii

Acknow ledgements Earlier versions of parts of the various chapters have appeared in the following books and journals, and I express my gratitude to their editors: Journal of Modern Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, L'Herne, Abiko Literary Quarterly, Rivista de Letterature Moderne e Cornparate, Jarnes Joyce Quarterly, Southern Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Twentieth Century Literary Criticisrn and The Languages of Joyce. I also want to acknowledge my appreciation to the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, where early segments of these chapters were written. viii

A Note on the Text References to Dubliners are to the 1961 Viking Press edition edited by Robert Scholes. Quotations are by page numbers from that edition, with the title of the individual story indicated as follows: Si En Ar Ev Af Tw Bo Li Co Cl Pa Iv Mo Gr De The Sisters An Encounter Araby Eveline After the Race Two Gallants The Boarding House A Little Cloud Counterparts Clay A Painful Case Ivy Day in the Committee Room AMother Grace TheDead References to Ulysses are the 1986 Random House edition edited by Hans Walter Gabler. Quotations are by inclusive line numbers from that edition, with the chapter titles indicated as follows: Te Ne Pr Ca Lo Ha Ae Le SC WR Si Chapter 1, Telemachus Chapter 2, Nestor Chapter 3, Proteus Chapter 4, Calypso Chapter 5, Lotus Eaters Chapter 6, Hades Chapter 7, Aeolus Chapter 8, Lestrygonians Chapter 9, Scylla and Charybdis Chapter 10, Wandering Rocks Chapter 11, Sirens ix

x A Note on the Text Cy Na OS Ci Eu It Pe Chapter 12, Cyclops Chapter 13, Nausicaa Chapter 14, Oxen of the Sun Chapter 15, Circe Chapter 16, Eumaeus Chapter 17, Ithaca Chapter 18, Penelope References to Finnegans Wake (FW) are to the 1947 edition (New York: Viking Press), incorporating the author's "Corrections of Misprints". Quotations are by page and inclusive line numbers. References to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (AP) are to the 1964 edition (New York: Viking Press) edited by Chester G. Anderson. Quotations are by page number from that edition. References to 5tephen Hero (SH) are from the 1963 edition (New York: New Directions) edited by Theodore Spencer. Quotations are by page number from that edition. Note regarding ellipses: those ellipses which are part of the text being quoted are indicated by closely spaced ellipses (... ), whereas deletions made by the author are marked by normally spaced ellipses (... ).