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Frank O'Connor's 'The Backward Look': Reading Joyce Regressively
- Dublin James Joyce Journal
- James Joyce Research Centre at University College Dublin
- Numbers 11-13. 2018-2020
- pp. 27-46
- 10.1353/djj.2018.0003
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
The essay explores the complex reactions of a leading Irish short story writer to James Joyce and finds that although he was influenced by Dubliners and delighted in parts of Ulysses, he remained deeply ambivalent about Joyce's achievement and his place in Irish literature.