http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/james-joyce Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:53:27 -0400 Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:53:27 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1524/examining-eveline-a-study-in-the-origins-of-the-paralysed-subject-in-joyces-dubliners By Ramy Habib - When James Joyce rewrote “The Sisters,” intending it to serve as an introduction to the whole of Dubliners, he altered the first line of the story with much significance: “There was no hope for him this time” (19)[1]. As it stands, the series not only begins with a clear statement about the lack of hope but also with an allusion to the inscription on the gates of Hell in Dante’s Inferno: “All hope abandon ye who enter here” (III.9). It is this with attitude, expecting only despair, that we should “enter here” when reading any of the stories... Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:30 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1524/examining-eveline-a-study-in-the-origins-of-the-paralysed-subject-in-joyces-dubliners http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/772/james-joyces-ulysses-and-blooms-utopian-vision-of-ireland By Kelley S. Kent - James Joyce's Ulysses is first and foremost a political novel, a "real Irish nationalist epic in its most . . . politically figurative form" (Bowen vii). Joyce himself stated that Ulysses "is the epic of two races," Israel and Ireland ("To Carlo Linati" 273). An analysis of the political views of Joyce’s famous protagonist, Leopold Bloom, can therefore only elucidate his uncertain position in the novel as an Irish, Hungarian Jew. Because of his multi-faceted identity, but mostly his Jewishness, Bloom is an outsider. His Irish nationalist acquaintances (they cannot be called friends) are... Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:40 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/772/james-joyces-ulysses-and-blooms-utopian-vision-of-ireland http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/319/james-joyces-the-dead-replaying-shakespeares-romeo-and-juliet By Patrick S. McArdle - Burdened by the tomes housing Joyce criticism, new texts that examine “The Dead” risk sinking into a critical vacuum. Peter J. Rabinowitz, in the idiom of reader-response criticism, labels this suction “interpretive vertigo,” while ironically adding to its collective pull.[1] The reader experiences Gabriel’s vertiginous sensibility due to the Joyce-specific reading rules of “hyperdense intertextuality” and “infinite etymology” (143). Rabinowitz thus displaces Gabriel’s disorientation at the moment he gazes up the stairwell towards Gretta... Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:37 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/319/james-joyces-the-dead-replaying-shakespeares-romeo-and-juliet