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Article: Suspicious Readings of Joyce's "Dubliners."(Book Review)
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Suspicious Readings of Joyce's 'Dubliners'. By Margot Norris. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. ix + 281 pp. $49.95; 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8122-3739-0.
Though her area is the whole of modernism, it remains fair to say that the abiding critical passion of Margot Norris remains with Joyce, in a critical career spread over nearly three decades. She began near the end of Joyce's writings (The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake, 1976) and turns now, here, to some of the earliest work in Dubliners, focusing on this in a mode of 'suspicion'. In the book under review, her massive erudition in the field of Joyce scholarship and the ...