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In this chapter, Claire Culleton sets out to challenge the many arguments that focus on paralysis in Joyce’s Dublin, and she argues that instead of paralysis, what we find in Dubliners is incredible movement. Having grown tired of the amount of scholarship and the innumerable study guides that focus on paralysis in Joyce’s collection, Culleton invites us to embrace a new Dublin imaginary, one not crippled or stalled by moral and intellectual paralysis, but one rife with possibilities, optimistic, even.
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Culleton, C.A. (2017). “The Thin End of the Wedge”: How Things Start in Dubliners . In: Culleton, C., Scheible, E. (eds) Rethinking Joyce's Dubliners. New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39336-0_2
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