Dublin’s “Guys and Dolls”: Reading Joyce with W. Trevor
William Trevor’s “Two More Gallants” is not only a parody of Joyce’s “Two Gallants” but a serious intertextual response to the problems of realism and modernism acutely felt in Joyce’s work. Drawing on recent theoretical discussions that focus on the unsettled borderline between realism and modernism, this paper explores the nature of the intertextual and historical relationships between Joyce and Trevor.