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'That life of commonplace sacrifices' : representations of womanhood in Irish Catholic culture in James Joyce's Dubliners

Creator:

McGrory, Suzette L.

Abstract:

Traditional interpretations of James Joyce's Dubliners have often focused on the pervasive "paralysis" of the city, covered in the stories' range of "childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life." However, these approaches have limited their focus on the women in the stories, often spotlighting the male characters--and the author--through a Freudian...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

women into lives of prostitution. In Dubliners, then, the female characters described by Joyce perform