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CREATIVE READING: WHAT WRITERS CAN LEARN FROM THE SHORT STORIES OF JAMES JOYCE
Tutor: Jem Poster
Presented by: Between the Lines
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| P | Sunday 2nd November, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 2:00pm Start time: 2:00pm |
| . | 18 and over |
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James Joyce’s Dubliners, first published in 1914, radically altered the landscape of the English-language short story. In this session we shall look at a representative selection of the stories it contains, considering what we can learn from Joyce’s choice of subject matter and his use of the Dublin vernacular (both contributing to his more snobbish contemporaries’ sense that he was a ‘vulgar’ writer), as well as his tendency to ‘show’ rather than ‘tell’ and his resistance to neat resolution – all matters as important to the present-day writer as they were to Joyce more than a century ago.
Reading (or re-reading) the stories is recommended but not essential. You can find those we'll be discussing - ‘The Sisters’, ‘Araby’, ‘Eveline’, ‘Clay’ and ‘A Painful Case'- online here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2814/pg2814-images.html#chap01
(If you want to buy, the Wordsworth edition of Dubliners is very cheap and perfectly satisfactory for our purposes.)
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