The Borrowed Dreams of Dubliners

• Hunter Dukes ^[1]
  1. [1] Tampere University
• Localización: James Joyce quarterly, ISSN 0021-4183, Vol. 58, Nº. 4, 2021, págs. 529-539
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Dreams have a history of being read as texts; but how should we read texts when they purport to dream? Here I think about oneiric moments in Dubliners defined broadly—nightmares, ecstasies, reverie. The idea is that when Joyce's Dubliners wander away in their minds, they enter books beyond their own: a kind of literary unconscious that contaminates the diegetic plane. If true, this challenges a tendency to read Dubliners as compositionally distinct from Joyce's later works, confirming (as others have suggested before) that the author's propensity for purloinment and forgery was a continual preoccupation, though one with fluctuating visibility and varying methods of formal acknowledgment.