San Antonio College Library

"Dermot McCarthy argues that Doyle's representation of working-class Dublin has broken with the traditional literary view of the Irish as a homogeneous "people" and has given a voice to a little-heard side of modern Ireland. His characters negotiate a culture that is a complex processor of exogenous influences and indigenous adaptation and assimilation. At the same time, they must negotiate an identity between the often conflicting demands of self-expression...

Studies of the form and content of Joyce's Dubliners and its effect on modern poetry and prose.

Excerpts from Joyce's writings highlight an in-depth study of his complete works.