James Joyce’s Echoes in Caitriona Lally’s Portrait of Dublin City

James Joyce’s Echoes in Caitriona Lally’s Portrait of Dublin City

James Stephens and James Joyce have been mentioned as referents for Caitriona Lally’s highly acclaimed debut novel, Eggshells (2015). The present contribution intends to study this new brilliant rendering of the city of Dublin through the eyes of allegedly ‘changeling’ Vivian, whose Joycean creative...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: José Manuel Estévez-Saá
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2016-10-01
Series:Philologica Canariensia
Subjects:
contemporary Irish literature
flâneuse
James Joyce
Caitriona Lally
Eggshells
Dublin City
Online Access:https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/PhilCan/article/view/747
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Summary:James Stephens and James Joyce have been mentioned as referents for Caitriona Lally’s highly acclaimed debut novel, Eggshells (2015). The present contribution intends to study this new brilliant rendering of the city of Dublin through the eyes of allegedly ‘changeling’ Vivian, whose Joycean creative musings on language serve her to portray contemporary Dublin, as well as to imaginatively project portals to other worlds where she can feel more at ease.
ISSN:1136-3169
2386-8635

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