SEMINAR PROFILE

H25 -
The Moment of Truth: James Joyce's Dubliners

James Joyce is famous for maximum effects in his art, for multiplying meanings in his stories through allusions, puns, analogies and symbols. He also excelled at minimal effects, at unequivocal clarity, what he called "scrupulous meanness." In Dubliners Joyce balanced these stylistic and structural qualities to present the drama of his contemporaries trying to bring good ends out of bad beginnings and always learning the difference when the stories they enact inevitably bring them to the moment of truth. Dubliners radical transformation of fiction rests in how Joyce gets to those moments and how he presents their consequences in austere but revelatory prose.

Scholar:

Theo Theoharis

Location:

Harvard Hillel

Dates:

10/24/2008, 10/31/2008

H25 -	The Moment of Truth: James Joyce's Dubliners

	James Joyce is famous for maximum effects in his art, for multiplying meanings in his stories through allusions, puns, analogies and symbols. He also excelled at minimal effects, at unequivocal clarity, what he called "scrupulous meanness." In Dubliners Joyce balanced these stylistic and structural qualities to present the drama of his contemporaries trying to bring good ends out of bad beginnings and always learning the difference when the stories they enact inevitably bring them to the moment of truth. Dubliners radical transformation of fiction rests in how Joyce gets to those moments and how he presents their consequences in austere but revelatory prose.

		Scholar:	Theo Theoharis
		Location:	Harvard Hillel
		Dates:	10/24/2008, 10/31/2008