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Indispensable reference for spotting (and understanding) multitudinous allusions scattered in Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
I find James Joyce's works to be some of the densest. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, for example, is already a challenging novel even without the allusions due to its stream-of-consciousness narration and internal monologues. Unless you are familiar with contemporary Irish geography, culture, and politics, different branches of Catholicism ...more
I find James Joyce's works to be some of the densest. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, for example, is already a challenging novel even without the allusions due to its stream-of-consciousness narration and internal monologues. Unless you are familiar with contemporary Irish geography, culture, and politics, different branches of Catholicism ...more
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