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Article: James Joyce's darkly colored portraits of "mother" in Dubliners.(Special "Dubliners" Number)
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- Studies in Short Fiction
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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She may appear, at first, a positive portrait, but the reader of Joyce's Dubliners soon discovers that there is something wrong with mother -- all mothers, whether they be real mothers or surrogates. Just as the priests of Portrait simultaneously convey contradictory impulses -- kindness and cruelty, for example -- the ambiguous mothers in Dubliners emerge paradoxical and enigmatic. Their "goodness" most decidedly tainted, Dubliners' mothers often seem ineffectual or hardened, sometimes even wildly or sadly perverted. Their positive feelings for their children become suspect when tempered by their harshness or selfishness. Usually paralyzed, either physically socially, ...
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Article: `Godot' from the mouths of Dubliners // Irishmen McGovern ...
Chicago Sun-Times;
June 14, 1992 ;
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... ... straight from the mouths of native Dubliners gives it a certain distinctive flavor ... this "Godot" features five authentic Dubliners. Among them, in the principal roles ... and the maniacal man in search of his mother and "the end" in "I'll Go On ...
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