Notion of the Outsider in Dubliners?

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This paper discusses the notion of the outsider in Joyce's "Dubliners" in relation to the individual's plight in society. Through the historical context of late 19th century Dublin, the paper goes on to discuss the paradoxical concept of the outsider being trapped firmly within their psychological and social boundaries.

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"Brunsdale unites Joyce's identities as writer and as foreigner thus: 'like many of his literary compatriots, Joyce wrote in English but felt in Irish, though it took a long time for him to admit it' . Joyce's own sense of alienation, in combination with an Ireland striving to maintain an individual identity against Imperial Britain, motivated his sequence of short stories, Dubliners . Through this work, Joyce interlaces states of external and internal being, both in society and in the individual's consciousness."

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