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Article: The narrated and its negatives: the nonnarrated and the disnarrated in Joyce's Dubliners. (The Short Story: Theory and Practice)
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- September 22, 1993
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Joyce's expression, more often than not, is swollen to the limit of the reader's endurance positively by metaphor, puns, portmanteau words, neologisms, and so forth and negatively by cliches, hackneyed language, and repetition. But, as we all know, this swelling in the expression is not necessarily a padding resulting in a lack of significant meaning. Indeed, this apparent empty prolixity is a subtle way of conveying implicit information of plot, character, and theme.
However, I wish to deal here with the contrary move in Dubliners: strategies of implication like not naming or delaying the names of characters or objects, eliding words in dialogue, referring to but not ...