Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Previous Research on Dubliners and
Fictional Social Minds
2.1 General Criticisms on Dubliners
2.1.1 The Early Period
2.1.2 The Transitional Period
2.1.3 The Later Period
2.2 Research on Minds in Dubliners
2.2.1 The Textual Approach
2.2.2 The Contextual Approach
2.3 Narratological Approaches to Fictional Minds
2.3.1 The Traditional Narratological Approach
2.3.2 The Cognitive Narratological Approach
2.4 Research on Social Minds in Fictions
Chapter 3 Social Mind Theory and Analytical Framework
3.1 The Social Nature of Mind
3.2 The Social Mind Theory
3.2.1 Palmer‘s Response to Classical Methodologies
3.2.2 The Centrality of Mind
3.2.3 The Social Mind in Action
3.3 Introducing the Social Mind Theory into Dubliners
3.3.1 Applicability of the Social Mind Theory in Dubliners
3.3.2 Improvement on the Social Mind Theory for Dubliners
3.4 An Analytical Framework
Chapter 4 The Social Minds in ”The Sisters”: An Exposure
4.1 The Opening: The Boy’s Publicly Engaged Mind
4.2 The Boy‘s Relationship with the Secular Adults
4.2.1 Unreadability of the Male Adults’ Mind
4.2.2 The Boy’s Dramaturgical Action
4.2.3 Unreadability of the Female Adults’ Mind
4.2.4 The Boy‘s ”Disappearance
4.2.5 Inescapability from the Secular World
4.3 The Boy’s Relationship with Father Flynn
4.3.1 Attributional Difficulty
4.3.2 Inescapability from the Religious World
4.4 Interpretative Uncertainty
4.5 Summary
Chapter 5 The Overt Social Minds
5.1 Tacit Complicity in ”The Boarding House
5.1.1 Communal Thought on Mrs. Mooney, Jack and Polly
5.1.2 Intermental Thought: Tacit Complicity between Mother
and Daughter
5.1.3 Ideology: Tacit Co mplicity a mong Ideological Forces
5.2 Open Complicity in ”Grace
5.2.1 Foregrounded Communal Perception and Thought
5.2.2 Intermental Thought: Open Complicity
5.2.3 Ideology: Open Complicity between the Church
and the Mammon
5.3 Political Anosognosia in ”Ivy Day in the Committee Room
5.3.1 The Opening: ”Allegory of the Cave
5.3.2 Hynes‘ Debut: Failed Enlightenment
5.3.3 No Alcohol Served: Unmasking the Political Anosognosia
5.3.4 Alcohol Served: Fortifying the Political Anosognosia
5.4 Summary
Chapter 6 The Covert Social Minds
6.1 Group Servility
6.1.1 Group Servility to the Colonialism
6.1.2 Group Servility to the Church
6.1.3 Females’ Group Servility to the Patriarchy
6.2 Group Self-Unknowing
6.2.1 Group Self-Deception
6.2.2 Group Anosognosia
6.3 Group Isolation
6.3.1 Individuals against Crowds
6.3.2 Group Self-Division
6.4 Summary
Chapter 7 The Social Minds in ”The Dead\: A Closure
7.1 The Dublin Bourgeois Communal Thought
7.1.1 Communal Thought: Bourgeois Pretentiousness
7.1.2 Communal Thought: Bourgeois Hypocrisy
7.2 Gabriel’s Encounters with Three Females
7.2.1 Gabriel‘s Encounter with Lily
7.2.2 Gabriel’s Encounter with Miss Ivors
7.2.3 Gabriel‘s Encounter with Gretta
7.3 The Ending: Gabriel’s Epiphany
7.4 Summary
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix A Synopses of the Fifteen Stories in Dubliners
Appendix B Composition Time of the Dubliners Stories