IRONY IN JAMES JOYCE’S DUBLINERS
IRONY IN JAMES JOYCE’S DUBLINERS

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the use of irony in James Joyce’s volume “Dubliners”. It starts from a theoretical presentation of the concept and then focuses on the sources of irony in the short stories, as identified by John Blades, but in a personal analysis. Though the stories present many examples of cosmic and situational irony, verbal irony is also discussed. The paper ends with a presentation of the ironic contrasts in “An Encounter”, seen as one of the very few stories in the volume in which irony is a source of humour.

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