Appunti James Joyce vita e opere, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica Appunti James Joyce vita e opere e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! James Joyce 1882-1941 He was born in Dublin 1882. Dublin, Ireland was in the UK. He felt suffocated by the Catholic religion and its teachings. The portrait of the artist of the young man, told the moment when Joyce decided to leave Ireland. He told the period when he was in a Jesuit college. It’s a sort of autobiographical novel. After that he published 14 short stories called “Dubliners”. He decided to go to France, the capital of culture, in particular Paris. He wanted to study medicine, but changed his study. Unfortunately his mother died and he went back to Ireland. He considers Dublin not a modern country and it represents his past. He falls in love with a woman, Nora Barnacle. They get married and have two kids. Before they lived in Paris, after they moved to Italy, in particular Trieste. Joyce met Italo Svevo in Italy and they worked together, they influenced each other. In 1914 Italy didn’t enter the war immediately: but they are considered a sort of enemy because Ireland wasn’t independent and was with the UK. Dubliners The style of dubliners is traditional but also it has some aspects of realism and symbolism. "Dubliners": the protagonists are different but the stories are put in order by their age. The first group was about childhood, the second one was about adolescence, the third one was about maturity and the last one was about public life. The dead it's the last short story and it is the most important one: it’s the longer story and it was considered a summary, a little microsim. The difference between the protagonists (everyone lives in Dublin) is about their age but every story has the same theme: it’s the feeling of paralysis (key word). Dublin was considered a place where everyone had a physical and psychological/moral paralysis. In fact the narrator (Joyce) could leave the city. For paralysis he intends the impossibility to move, and some of the protagonists are really paralysis: eveline in adolescence. She had a difficult time moving because she couldn’t leave Ireland and his family, for this she was in a port and his body was paralyzed before traveling. Epiphany Epiphany it’s a sudden revelation on the protagonists' life, during the story the protagonists know something about themselves. There were some characteristics in protagonists’ life that represent a sort of revelation about their condition and their life. The symbols about their life are usually a sensorial element, like a perfume or a song, and it remembers their life. Epiphany was the moment of revelation, Evelyn, one of the protagonists in the stories, listened to a song, it was the same song that she listened to when her mother died, and she remembered her promise. This event was one element about the impossibility for her to move away with her boyfriend. In the Dubliners the technique was an indirect interior monologue, protagonist point of view and symbolic meaning. Joyce experimented with a new type of technique: In the novel Ulysses used direct interior monologue and after In Finnegans Wake used a direct interior monologue with words of other languages. Eveline It’s one of 14 stories in Dubliners, an adolescence group. The story is divided in two parts: in the first part she is at home, in the second part she is at port. The first part of this story was set in the evening, this characteristic has a symbolic meaning. She meets her dead mother in her memories, for this the evening represents death. She doesn’t take any action, she just thinks about her future with her boyfriend and about her childhood. At the end of this part she had an epiphany. In the second part of the story she was in a port where she has paralysis. Eveline Hill, a nineteen-year-old girl, looks out of her window. She has a visual sensation, smell sensation and auditory sensation. She sees a musician and this sound reminds her of a song heard before her mother's death. The girl then begins to remember her childhood: she thinks of her father, who often mistreated her but who was also good to her on several occasions, she remembers her mother and her missing brother Ernest and feels frustrated by her humble job as a saleswoman in a department store, where her boss makes fun of her and puts her in a bad light, reasons why, when she leaves, she won't miss her work at all. In fact, she has decided to leave with her boyfriend Frank, for Buenos Aires. Before leaving, she holds two letters, one for Harry, her brother who is still alive, and the other for her father. The memory of her mother's monotonous and sad life pushes her to leave; once she arrives with Frank at the port, while their ship is about to leave, Eveline is once again caught up in indecision and, in the end, thinking about the promise she made to her mother on her deathbed to keep the family together, Frank ends up leaving without her. The Catholic religion was a paralysis element. The story opens in media res and Joyce used a third-person narrator but he describes Evelin’s the point of view, what she sees, what she smells, and what she hears. Eveline → passive, influenced by her family’s mentality Her father → a violent and strict man (negative) Frank → very kind and brave boy (positive) Antithesis: her house and Buenos Aires → Paralysis/Escape Her house and the house in Belfast Epiphany→ song and she remembers the promise that she made to her mother before dying Symbolic words: dust→ paralysis and decay sea→ action and escape snow→ own interpretation Everyone has a subjective interpretation of symbolic words and “sea” probably is also a negative word.