Dubliners Story - English - Lecture Slides, Slides of English Language

Download Dubliners Story - English - Lecture Slides and more Slides English Language in PDF only on Docsity! 1 James Joyce’s Dubliners James Joyce 1882-1941 Published works: Chamber Music (poems) (1907) Dubliners (1914) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) Exiles (play) (1918) Ulysses (1922) Pomes Penyeach (poems) (1927) Collected Poems (Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, and “Ecce Puer”; 1936) Finnegans Wake (1939) see also Dubliners, pp. liv-lx James Joyce 1882-1941 Posthumous works: Stephen Hero (early version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; written 1904-06, published 1944, 1963) Critical Writings (1959); Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing (2000) - essays and book reviews, mostly from before 1910 Letters (volume 1, 1957; volumes 2-3, 1966; Selected Letters, 1975) Giacomo Joyce (short sketch from 1914, published 1968) translation of Gerhart Hauptmann’s 1889 play Before Sunrise (translated 1901, published 1978) composition of the stories 12 stories written in 1904-05: “The Sisters,” “Eveline,” “After the Race” (all written in Dublin), “Clay,” “The Boarding House,” “Counterparts,” “A Painful Case,” “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” “An Encounter,” “A Mother,” “Araby,” “Grace” 2 stories written in 1906: “Two Gallants,” “A Little Cloud” (plus idea for one based on Alfred Hunter called “Ulysses” – never written) 1 story written in 1907: “The Dead” see also Dubliners, pp. xli-xlvi publishing history of Dubliners 1904: Irish Homestead: “The Sisters” (Aug 13), “Eveline” (Sept 10), “After the Race” (Dec 17) 1906: Richards accepts book in February 1909: Maunsel & Co. (Dublin) accepts full book 1905: sends 12 stories to Grant Richards (London) then (2 stories added) rejects it in September 1910: Maunsel pulls proofs but delays publication 1912: deal collapses; proofs destroyed 1914: Grant Richards accepts Dubliners again and publishes it in June 1905-14: 15+ publishers reject book (4 twice) Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated June 28, war (World War I) declared July 28 the problem(s)? [also Dubliners 186-89] names real business establishments: O’Neill’s, Davy Byrne’s, Scotch House, Mulligan’s (“Counterparts,” pp. 68, 71, 72, 72) “profanity”: but Jack kept shouting at him that if any fellow tried that sort of a game on with his sister he'd bloody well put his teeth down his throat, so he would. (“The Boarding House,” p. 51) −At dinner, you know. Then he has a bloody big bowl of cabbage before him on the table and a bloody big spoon like a shovel. . . . (“Grace,” pp. 125-26) refers to public figures: −But after all now, said Mr Lyons argumentatively, King Edward's life, you know, is not the very . . . . . −Let bygones be bygones, said Mr Henchy. I admire the man personally. He's just an ordinary knockabout like you and me. He's fond of his glass of grog and he's a bit of a rake, perhaps, and he's a good sportsman. Damn it, can't we Irish play fair? (“Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” p. 102) docsity.com 2 the problem(s)? - 2 “pornography”: A man with two establishments to keep up, of course he couldn’t . . . (“Counterparts,” p. 70) Farrington said he wouldn’t mind having the far one and began to smile at her but when Weathers offered to introduce her he said “No,” he was only chaffing because he knew he had not money enough. She continued to cast bold glances at him and changed the position of her legs often and when she was going out she brushed against his chair and said “Pardon!” in a Cockney accent. (“Counterparts,” early draft version) – published version: Farrington gazed admiringly at the plump arm which she moved very often and with much grace; and when, after a little time, she answered his gaze he admired still more her large dark brown eyes. The oblique staring expression in them fascinated him. She glanced at him once or twice and, when the party was leaving the room, she brushed against his chair and said O, pardon! in a London accent. (“Counterparts,” p. 73) arrangement of the stories childhood: “The Sisters,” ”An Encounter,” “Araby” adolescence: “Eveline,” “After the Race,” [“Two Gallants,”] “The Boarding House” mature life: [“A Little Cloud,”] “Counterparts,” “Clay,” “A Painful Case” public life: “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” “A Mother,” “Grace” + [“The Dead”] (from a letter to brother Stanislaus Joyce, September 1905) [brackets] = not mentioned; conceived and added later Dubliners: from Joyce’s letters 1 “I call the series Dubliners to betray the soul of that hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city.” (letter to friend Constantine Curran, August 1904) Dubliners: from Joyce’s letters 2 “I think people might be willing to pay for the special odour of corruption which, I hope, floats over my stories.” (letter to publisher Grant Richards, October 15, 1905) Dubliners: from Joyce’s letters 3 “My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.” (letter to publisher Grant Richards, May 5, 1906) Dubliners: from Joyce’s letters 4 “I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness and with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter in the presentment, still more to deform, whatever he has seen and heard.” (letter to publisher Grant Richards, May 5, 1906) docsity.com