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Stifled Back Answers: The Gender Politics of Art in Joyce's "The Dead"
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Although the first sentence of "The Dead" as discussed by the authors tells us that 44LiIy, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet, Lily does not complain about her lot.Abstract:
Although the first sentence of \"The Dead\" tells us that 44LiIy, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet\" (D 175), Lily does not complain about her lot. Indeed, that is why she gets on so well with her mistresses. We learn a little later, \"But Lily seldom made a mistake in the orders so that she got on well with her three mistresses. They were fussy, that was all. But the only thing they would not stand was back answers\" (176). If we decode the bourgeois agenda of the narrative voice1 at this moment, its intention to offer a politically complacent representa-read more
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The Theory of the Avant-Garde
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"Who is G. C.?": Misprizing Gabriel Conroy in Joyce's "The Dead"
TL;DR: The question "Who is G. C?" that Molly Ivors puts to her dance partner midway through ‘The Dead" is one that has long engaged the story's critics as mentioned in this paper.
Woman, Body, Art: Henrik Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken and A Doll's House
TL;DR: The body and its function in creating art becomes significant for Ibsen so that he uses intertexts in his drama, particularly the mixture of verbal and visual languages or performing arts, like dance and sculpture, used respectively, in A Doll's House (1879) and When We Dead Awaken (1899).
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A Century Apart: Intimacy, Love and Desire from James Joyce to Emma Donoghue
TL;DR: The authors reread James Joyce's 'The Dead' alongside Emma Donoghue's 'Speaking in Tongues' (Touchy Subjects, 2006) so as to consider how they represent love, desire and the longing for intimacy in their respective historical contexts, and specifically whether self-sacrifice, rated as the ultimate proof of love in ‘The Dead’, persists or is replaced by different configurations of love and intimacy in modern Ireland.
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