Dubliners

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Dubliners is a collection of short stories by James Joyce that portrays the everyday lives and moral paralysis of Dublin’s middle and lower classes in the early 20th century.

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Label Occurrences
Dubliners canonical 7
Araby 1
The Dead (short story by James Joyce) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf short story collection
author James Joyce
copyrightStatus public domain in many jurisdictions
countryOfOrigin Ireland
depictsSocialClass lower class
middle class
firstEditionFormat print
genre modernist literature
realist fiction
hasAdaptation The Dead (1987 film)
various stage adaptations of The Dead
hasCentralMotif epiphany
paralysis
hasPart A Little Cloud
A Mother
A Painful Case
After the Race
An Encounter
Dubliners self-linksurface differs
surface form: Araby

Clay
Counterparts
Eveline
Grace
Ivy Day in the Committee Room
The Boarding House
The Dead
The Sisters
Two Gallants
influenced 20th-century short story form
Irish literature
language English
literaryForm short story
literaryMovement Modernism
narrativeStyle third-person narration
narrativeTechnique epiphany
notableWorkOf James Joyce
numberOfShortStories 15
originalPublisherLocation London, England
surface form: London
placeOfSetting Dublin
primaryTheme escape and entrapment
everyday life of Dubliners
moral paralysis
nationalism and identity
religion and Catholicism
social class
publicationYear 1914
publisher Grant Richards
settingCountry Ireland
structure progression from childhood to public life
timePeriodOfSetting early 20th century
turn of the 20th century

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James Joyce notableWork Dubliners
Hans Walter Gabler hasEdited Dubliners
statue of James Joyce subjectNotableWork Dubliners
subject surface form: Statue of James Joyce in Trieste
Dubliners hasPart Dubliners self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Araby
Chamber Music followedBy Dubliners
Nora Barnacle inspiredWork Dubliners
Chapelizod appearsInWork Dubliners
Tony Huston basedOn Dubliners
this entity surface form: The Dead (short story by James Joyce)