Through Joyce's Looking Glass: Dubliners and the Parable Form

This essay explores James Joyce's engagement with Biblical parables in Dubliners. Like parables, Joyce's stories employ realistic situations, vivid imagery, and puzzling endings to prompt readers into moral reflection. Joyce's stories also draw upon specific Biblical parables. In &quo...

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Autore principale: Chittenden, Kelly (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: Johns Hopkins University Press 2023
In: Christianity & literature
Anno: 2023, Volume: 72, Fascicolo: 2, Pagine: 174-192
Notazioni IxTheo:CD Cristianesimo; cultura
HC Nuovo Testamento
KAH Età moderna
KAJ Età contemporanea
KBF Isole Britanniche
Altre parole chiave:B James Joyce
B "The Boarding House
B Dubliners
B Parable
B "A Painful Case"
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Riepilogo:This essay explores James Joyce's engagement with Biblical parables in Dubliners. Like parables, Joyce's stories employ realistic situations, vivid imagery, and puzzling endings to prompt readers into moral reflection. Joyce's stories also draw upon specific Biblical parables. In "The Boarding House," Joyce inverts the Parable of the Ten Virgins to illuminate the disconnect between love and duty in Irish society. In "A Painful Case," he draws upon the Parable of the Great Banquet to highlight the implications of individual and societal inhospitality. Examining Joyce's parabolic method adds to the growing conversation about Joyce's sustained interest in Scripture and Christian thought.
ISSN:2056-5666
Comprende:Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/chy.2023.a904915