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Article: Sympathy and Joyce's `Dubliners': Ethical Probing of Reading, Narrative, and Textuality.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Sympathy and Joyce's `Dubliners': Ethical Probing of Reading, Narrative, and Textuality. By Tanja Vesala-Varttala. (Tampere Studies in Literature and Textuality) Tampere, Finland: Tampere University Press. 1999. viii + 308 pp. 15 [pounds sterling].
Tanja Vesala-Varttala's study of Dubliners concerns itself primarily with wider questions of sympathy and the reading process. She points out that while the idea of sympathy is a subject frequently addressed in literary works themselves, there are many similarities between sympathetic feeling and our approach to reading texts, and this realization prepares the way for new insights into narrative theory. Indeed, no ...