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- Title
[Un]covering Joyce: Dubliners 100 and the Contemporary Irish Short Story as Intertextual Practice.
- Authors
Moore, Gillian
- Abstract
This article considers Dubliners 100: 15 New Stories Inspired by the Original, a 2014 collection of "cover stories" by contemporary Irish writers based on James Joyce's Dubliners. using historical and contemporary short story theory--as well as original interviews the author conducted with six writers involved in the project alongside analysis of their stories--the article situates Dubliners 100 within a wider context of influence, repetition, spectrality, and omission in recent Irish short fiction. Interviews with eimear Mcbride (who rewrote "Ivy day in the Committee Room"), John boyne ("Araby"), Paul Murray ("A Painful Case"), evelyn Conlon ("two Gallants"), Peter Murphy ("the dead"), and oona Frawley ("the boarding House") suggest that these writers experienced the legacy of Joyce as both aesthetically and conceptually generative, rather than stifling or overwhelming. by questioning the internal, cyclical, and authorial coherence frequently attributed to short story collections, this article suggests that Dubliners 100 opened spaces for writers to engage in forms of ludic, intertextual experiment that illuminate the importance of shared--and unexpected--discourses, cultures, and filiations to the contemporary story more generally. the collection is marked by a tension between design and chance, which gave rise to a sense of Irish short fiction as polyphonic, adaptive, and elastic.
- Subjects
IRISH short stories; JOYCE, James, 1882-1941; DUBLINERS (Book : Joyce); IRISH fiction; IRISH literature; IRISH authors; IRISH novelists; MCBRIDE, Eimear, 1976-
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2019, Vol 42, p114
- ISSN
0703-1459
- Publication type
Article