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While James Joyce is known as one of the radical innovators of the novel, his play, Exiles, provides a window into how he attempted to navigate two different traditions: the scholar-artist tradition and the tradition of dramatic realism. By reading Joyce’s non-fiction essays alongside his play and bringing these into relation with Joyce’s main dramatic influence, Henrik Ibsen, I argue that Joyce’s dramatic work shows the tension between these two traditions and the influences of both Walter Pater and Ibsen himself. Joyce’s figure of the scholar-artist, Richard Rowan, fits Pater’s own conception; however, at the level of narrative we find that Joyce pulls back from the radical critique of the artist that can be found in Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken.
