Before Daybreak: After the Race and the Origins of Joyce's Art

by Cóilín Owens

Joyce's "After the Race" is a seemingly simple tale, historically unloved by critics. Yet when magnified and dismantled, the story yields astounding political, philosophic, and moral intricacy.In Before Daybreak, C il n Owens shows that "After the Race" is much more than a story about Dublin at the time of the 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup Race: in reality, it is a microcosm of some of the issues most central to Joycean scholarship. These issues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081304247X
• ISBN13: 9780813042473
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"