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Overview
It’s Christmastime in Dublin. The snow is falling. And a thirty-year strong annual Christmas party is underway. Gabriel Conroy, nephew to the hosts, frets over his impending after-dinner speech, while Gretta, his wife, wanders the affair thinking of her childhood home. The lavish festivities proceed in full swing, Gabriel’s long-awaited speech ends in a rousing rendition of “For They Are Jolly Gay Fellow,” and as the party winds to a close, the guests spill out into the winter night…all except for Gretta.
At the top of the stairs she stands chillingly still, seemingly mesmerized by the sounds of a soft song being sung in another room. And while the Conroys eventually leave, Gretta’s mind remains with the music—haunted by a long-lost memory that will shake her husband to his core.
James Joyce’s The Dead is a critically acclaimed novella that explores how much of living we owe to lives of the dead and how much the ghosts of our past truly shape us.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781441488374 |
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| Publisher: | CreateSpace Publishing |
| Publication date: | 02/26/2009 |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 54 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.11(d) |
About the Author
Date of Birth:
February 2, 1882Date of Death:
January 13, 1941Place of Birth:
Dublin, IrelandPlace of Death:
Zurich, SwitzerlandEducation:
B.A., University College, Dublin, 1902Website:
http://www.jamesjoyce.ieTable of Contents
About the Series
About This Volume
PART ONE: "THE DEAD": THE COMPLETE TEXT
Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text [1967 Viking Compass Edition, prepared by Robert Scholes]
PART TWO: "THE DEAD": A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
A Critical History of "The Dead"
Psychoanalytic Criticism and "The Dead"
What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism?
Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography A Psychoanalytic Perspective:
Daniel R. Schwarz, Gabriel Contoy's Psyche: Character as Concept in Joyce's "The Dead"
Reader-Response Criticism and "The Dead"
What Is Reader-Response Criticism?
Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography A Reader-Response Perspective:
Peter J. Rabinowitz, "A Symbol of Something": Interpretive Vertigo in "The Dead"
New Historicism and "The Dead"
What Is New Historicism?
New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography A New Historicist Perspective:
Michael Levenson, Living History in "The Dead"
Feminist Criticism and "The Dead"
What Is Feminist Criticism?
Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography A Feminist Perspective:
Margot Norris, Not the Girl She Was at All: Women in "The Dead"
Deconstruction and "The Dead"
What Is Deconstruction?
Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography A Deconstructionist Perspective:
John Paul Riquelme, For Whom the Snow Taps: Style and Repetition in "The Dead"
Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
About the Contributors