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❦ Contents Acknowledgments ix Contributors xi Abbreviations xix Introduction 1 VICK I M AHA FFEY AND JILL SHASHATY 1. Silence and Fractals in “The Sisters” 23 MICHAEL GRODEN AND VICK I M AHA FFEY 2. “An Encounter”: James Joyce’s Humiliation Nation 48 M ARGOT GAYLE BACKUS AND JOSEPH VALENTE 3. Lighted Squares: Framing “Araby” 69 K ATHRY N CONR AD AND M AR K OSTEEN 4. “Eveline” at Home: Reflections on Language and Context 89 DER EK ATTR IDGE AND ANNE FOGARTY 5. “After the Race” and the Problem of Belonging 108 MICHAEL PATR ICK GILLESPIE AND DAVID W EIR 6. En Garde: “Two Gallants” 125 M AR ILY N R EIZBAUM AND M AUD ELLM ANN 7. “The Instinct of the Celibate”: Boarding and Borderlines in “The Boarding House” 144 R ICHAR D BROW N AND GR EGORY CASTLE 8. The Small Light in “A Little Cloud” 164 M AR IAN EIDE AND VICK I M AHA FFEY 9. “Counterparts” 188 JA MES HANSEN AND JEAN-MICHEL R ABATÉ viii ❦ C ON T E N T S 10. Working with Clay 210 GABR IELLE CAR EY AND BAR BAR A LONNQUIST 11. Reopening “A Painful Case” 238 PAUL K. SAINT-A MOUR AND K AR EN R. LAWR ENCE 12. “Ivy Day in the Committee Room” 261 JENNIFER LEVINE AND ANDR EW GIBSON 13. The Politics of Maternity and Daughterhood in “A Mother” 296 K IMBER LY J. DEVLIN AND CAROL LOEB SHLOSS 14. “Grace”: Spirited Discourses 323 R. BR ANDON K ER SHNER AND M ARY LOW E-EVANS 15. Dead Again 343 M ARGOT NOR R IS AND VINCENT P. PECOR A Works Cited 379 Index 395 ...

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