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<p>Because the stories in James Joyce's <i>Dubliners</i> seem to function as models of fiction, they are able to stand in for fiction in general in their ability to make the operation of texts explicit and visible. Joyce's stories do this by provoking skepticism in the face of their storytelling. Their narrative unreliabilities&mdash;produced by strange gaps, omitted scenes, and misleading narrative prompts&mdash;arouse suspicion and oblige the reader to distrust how and why the story is told.<br><br>As a result, one is prompted to look into what is concealed, omitted, or left unspoken, a quest that often produces interpretations in conflict with what the narrative surface suggests about characters and events. Margot Norris's strategy in her analysis of the stories in <i>Dubliners</i> is to refuse to take the narrative voice for granted and to assume that every authorial decision to include or exclude, or to represent in a particular way, may be read as motivated. <i>Suspicious Readings of Joyce's Dubliners</i> examines the text for counterindictions and draws on the social context of the writing in order to offer readings from diverse theoretical perspectives.<br><br><i>Suspicious

Author

Norris, Margot

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283211901