ENGLISH 45C Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Free Indirect Speech, Aposiopesis, Eveline
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Critical of many institutions of irish life: polit, relig . Stories = versions of irish ppl/life -> epiphany in reader, spiritual liberation of this country . Dialectic/tension tw stasis/motion, paralysis/epiphany exist in indiv story and whole volume. Volume has tail in its mouth; could easily switch titles of first/last stories; seems to progress, but doubling of charas/concerns throughout stories. Coin in hand - appeared in araby too, though they mean different things. > more complex q of econ/money; appears also in the mother . Any time you have a double, you have a gap. When looking in mirror to see urself, it"s not exactly yourself - just reflected img. Joyce plays upon endless doubling + gaps in the stories, ways he doesn"t tell us stuff. Gaps of info - when story"s focalized thru 1 chara, need to read 2 stories at once: story coming thru focalized view + the story we"re not told.
