{"product_id":"before-daybreak-c-iln-owens-9780813060941","title":"Before Daybreak: After the Race and the Origins of Joyce's Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Demonstrates the richness and resonance (and importance to Joyce's emerging artistic sensibility) of even the least rich, most marginal of Joyce's early fictions. In particular, Owens's painstaking and illuminating investigation does rare justice to the technical complexities of Joyce's literary method. A fitting companion volume to his insightful \u003ci\u003eJames Joyce's Painful Case\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--Brian W. Shaffer, Rhodes College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoyce'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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBefore Daybreak\u003c\/i\u003e, Cl匤 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese issues include large-scale historical concerns--in this case, radical nationalism and the centennial of Robert Emmet's rebellion. Owens also explains the temporary and local issues reflected in Joyce's language, organization, and silences. He traces Joyce's narrative technique to classical, French, and Irish traditions. Additionally, \"After the Race\" reflects Joyce's internal conflict between emotional allegiance to Christian orthodoxy and contemporary intellectual skepticism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf the dawning of Joyce's singular power, range, subtlety, and learning can be identified in a seemingly elementary text like \"After the Race,\" this study implicitly contends that any Dubliners story can be mined to reveal the intertextual richness, linguistic subtlety, parodic brilliance, and cultural poignancy of Joyce's art. Owens's meticulous work will stimulate readers to explore Joyce's stories with the same scrutiny in order to comprehend and relish how Joyce writes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cl匤 Owens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081306094X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813060941\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d","brand":"Cl匤 Owens","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947289805055,"sku":"9780813060941","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_acdb031a-4566-45d2-af07-3eff9bfa6019.jpg?v=1681517836","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/before-daybreak-c-iln-owens-9780813060941","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}