Another Look at Joyceans: Evelyn Conlon’s Rewrite of “Two Gallants”
Another Look at Joyceans: Evelyn Conlon’s Rewrite of “Two Gallants”

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the satirical portrayal of Joyce scholarship in Evelyn Conlon’s short story “Two Gallants”, offered for the tribute volume of Dubliners 100, a writerly joint venture edited by Thomas Morris in 2014. The analysis acknowledges the intertextual richness of Conlon’s creation, as she engages not only with the master text, but with other writers’ responses to Joyce’s work. Questions related to repetition, referencing and repurposing of the words of others prove central to the story’s plot, in which a female scholar has to guard her research against an ungallant tandem of plagiarist colleagues. The motif of feminist revenge looms large in the narrative which ties the fate of a cheated servant maid with that of her modern granddaughter, lashing out against unfair academic practice.

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