"Dubliners"

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This paper discusses the book "Dubliners", a collection of short stories written by James Joyce, an Irish modernist of the early 20th century. The paper describes how women are the best of a bad, all too human collection of Irish characters in "Dubliners". The paper explores the deflationary but compassionate view of the sexual urges of both men and women over the course of Joyce's collection of short stories in "Dubliners".

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"Of course it is true in the Dublin of Joyce's creation that at times, intense female sensuality (both in the sense of the female connection to the sensual life of food and drink as well as sex) can make it seem as though the intellectual Joyce views women negatively, as merely physical creatures. But in actuality, although Joyce does view this aspect of female life with occasional irony and humor, he ultimately sees what he considers as a particularly female attribute as an example of women's greater humility and respect for the true, earthly nature of human existence."

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