Perspectives

In what follows, we will add some points for putting “A Painful Case” by James Joyce into perspective. These points can serve as inspiration for a meaningful discussion about the text, based on the context it was written in.

Literary period

James Joyce is part of the avant-garde, first and experimental, writers in the literary current we call Modernism.

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Works in the same genre

You can also find realistic and modernist short stories such as those of James Joyce in the writings of Ernest Hemingway, who also contributed to the development of modernist literature.

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Works by the same author

To better understand the short story “A Painful Case”, you should look at it in the context of Joyce’s full collection “Dubliners”. The stories in this volume form a total which depicts Dublin society.

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