Quantitative standing, out-of-the place, and irresolution in James Joyce’s A Little Cloud, After the Race, and Eveline

Abstract

This paper considers three of James Joyce's Dubliners short stories: Eveline, After the Race, and A Little Cloud. Shared themes are one thing that ties these various stories in Dubliners together. The concept that narratives portray paralysis, corruption, and death unites all of the stories. Characters in these stories either circle indefinitely or travel outward before turning around. Martin Heidegger coined the term