Rethinking Joyce's Dubliners

This collection of essays is a critical reexamination of Joyces famed book of short stories,�Dubliners. Despite the multifaceted critical attention�Dubliners�has received since its publication more than a century ago,�many�readers and teachers of the stories�still rely on and embrace�old,�outdated readings that invoke metaphors of paralysis and stagnation to understand the book. Challenging these canonical notions about mobility, paralysis, identity, and gender in Joyces work,�the ten�essays here�suggest that�Dubliners�is full of incredible movement. By embracing this paradigm shift, current and future scholars can open themselves up to the possibility of seeing that movement, maybe even noticing it for the first time, can yield surprisingly fresh twenty-first-century readings.�