Dubliners: Two Gallants & The Boarding House

This week we’re going to discuss the stories “Two Gallants” & “The Boarding House” in James Joyce’s Dubliners, as well as the essay “Two Gallants” by A. Walton Litz on page 327 of the Viking Edition: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eEU5BhlaumKsU1eahIqjjow1hV7AS5pW/view?usp=sharing

Assigned reading is also Chapters 6 and 7 (pages 80-108) of Suspicious Readings of Joyce’s Dubliners by Margot Norris: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UCHQ4PrYgX0a4SEK1Qtk8WBcw6YLqZ5B/view?usp=sharing

We encourage people to use Don Gifford’s Joyce Annotated which correlates with certain lines, words, and phrases: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qrKQQ0qwVUr8AGcp3ZDiR-fPdXA3gNC8/view?usp=sharing

We’re going to take a look at multiple interpretations by Joyce scholars and discuss our opinions on these different points of view.

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This is a biweekly meetup at 5 pm PST with a reoccurring Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81591495790