http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/the-dead 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 Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:00:34 -0400 Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:00:34 -0400 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