“Robert Emmet’s Rising of 1803 and the Bold Mrs. Kearney: James Joyce's ‘A Mother’ as Historical Analogue”
For years, Joyce’s short story “A Mother” has perplexed readers of Dubliners. Initially, many scholars dismissed it in much the same manner as “Hoppy” Holohan and O’Madden Burke discount Mrs. Kearney at the story's end. The tale's focus was quite clear to these early critics: Kathleen Kea...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jsse, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2008
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | For years, Joyce’s short story “A Mother” has perplexed readers of Dubliners. Initially, many scholars dismissed it in much the same manner as “Hoppy” Holohan and O’Madden Burke discount Mrs. Kearney at the story's end. The tale's focus was quite clear to these early critics: Kathleen Kearney's mother is a fright--nothing more, nothing less. Self-indulgent and willful, Miss Devlin marries the bootmaker Kearney because the Age, as well as her age, invests a certain urgency. She must soon marr... |
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