SOURCE: "Joyce's The Dead,'" in Modern Fiction: A Formalist Approach, Southern Illinois University Press, 1971, pp. 29-61.
In the following excerpt, Handy examines the thematic nature of "The Dead, " particularly its theme of spiritual death.
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