by Eric Rovie, Brookwood High School, Georgia Creative Commons PDF of Dubliners James Joyce’s Dubliners is an underappreciated masterpiece-the impact of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man on the stream-of-consciousness narrative, the explosive Modernism of Ulysses and the incomprehensible vagaries of Finnegan’s Wake often lead to Dubliners being an afterthought in Joyce’s corpus. There are several advantages to teaching Dubliners in class: It is in the public domain, which makes it easy for students to access, even digitally. Copies are cheap and easy to purchase. Because it is a collection of short stories, connected only by themes and location, it is easy to teach stories in isolation, or not in full. It is generally not controversial or objectionable to most students. The most objectionable things present in the text (the old man’s possible sexual behavior in “An Encounter”, the implications of Father Flynn’s possible misdeeds in “The Sisters”) are usually missed by ... KEEP READING
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