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Article: Reading Dubliners Again: A Lacanian Perspective. (book reviews)
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- Studies in Short Fiction
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- June 22, 1995
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No one has read and written about Dubliners more carefully than Garry Leonard; by my count, Leonard has written about 50% more on Dubliners than Joyce wrote in Dubliners. In Reading Dubliners Again, Leonard subjects Joyce's 15 stories to a scrutiny they've never before received, and the results are often fascinating; the book is full of delightful small discoveries that should change, in important ways, our readings of these stories, and perhaps more importantly, change us as readers of the stories.
As his title suggests, Izonard's particular angle of vision is that provided by several key texts of Jacques Lacan, especially the two volumes of his Freud seminar ...