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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Main Author: José Manuel Estévez-Saá
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2016-10-01
Series:Philologica Canariensia
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Online Access:https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/PhilCan/article/view/747
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description 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.
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James Joyce’s Echoes in Caitriona Lally’s Portrait of Dublin City
Philologica Canariensia
contemporary Irish literature
flâneuse
James Joyce
Caitriona Lally
Eggshells
Dublin City
title James Joyce’s Echoes in Caitriona Lally’s Portrait of Dublin City
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title_sort james joyce s echoes in caitriona lally s portrait of dublin city
topic contemporary Irish literature
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James Joyce
Caitriona Lally
Eggshells
Dublin City
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