Before daybreak [electronic resource] : "After the race" and the origins of Joyce's art / Coilin Owens ; foreword by Sebastian D.G. Knowles.
Material type: TextSeries: Florida James Joyce seriesPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013Description: xxiv, 325 p. : ill., mapISBN: 9780813042688 (electronic bk.)Other title: After the raceSubject(s): Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation | Joyce, James, 1882-1941. DublinersGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 823/.912 LOC classification: PR6019.O9 | Z7474 2013Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-306) and index.
Introduction -- The automobile age -- The biographical crisis -- Arthur Griffith and the great game -- Robert Emmet centennial -- Rhetoric: modern and classical -- The infernal -- Conclusion.
A close examination of the story "After the race," which originally appeared in Dubliners that argues that the story represents a microcosm of some of the issues most central to Joyce scholarship: evolution as an artist, the Catholic Church, and nostalgia for a rapidly changing Ireland.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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