Appunti su James Joyce, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica Appunti su James Joyce e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JOYCE James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. He was educated at gesuits schools ( gesuits people have a closed min i European culture: this lead him to begin to think of himself as a Mi e n that the only way to increase Ireland’s awareness was by Offering a realistic portrait of its life from a European cosmopolitan v iewpoint. He doesn't hate Dublin, he Want to change ît, denouncing the misery life of Dubliners.In 1904 he fell in love with Nora Barnacle. TRIESTE 1905-15: la 1905 they went to Trieste when Joyce teaches English language and make fr ‘with Italo Svevo. Nora and Joyce had 2 children (Giorgio e Lucia) but the years in Trieste new difficult becausè the family had financial problems: Joyce was in trouble with publishers and editors because there Were obscene elements in his prose. His first work is a collection of 36 shorts stories called “Chamber Music” and “Dubliners” divided in 15 shorts stories. While not a huge commercial success, the book caught “the attention of the American poet Ezra Pound, who helped him to print “A portrait of the artist as a Young lan”. 1A, 1915-200ri ustria, so Joyce moved tu Zurich and “a portrait of the artist as Va young man” Le penale In 1917 he received an anonymous donations which enabled him to continue writing “Ulysses” a novel which was suspended for obscene elements. PARIS 1920-40: \n 1920 Joyce moved to Paris and published ‘Ulysses? in 1922. There were two limited edition. A first limited american edition that count 1000 copies, and a second english edition that count 2000 copies. The first unlimited edition was published in 1924. This novel drew both praise and sharp criticism. The novel traces the experencies of Mr, Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly and the poet Stephen Dedalus(from *A Portrait of the Artist'), on a single day, 16th june 1904, in Dublin. In this period there was a worseness of Lucia, with her mental illness. Lucia”s\condition deteriorated and she was sent to a mental hospital This final decade of Joyce life, was darkened by his daughter‘s illness, his increasing blindness and his father's death. He continued to write and published *Finnegans Wake” in 1939. This novel was more difficult to read, because of its new words. However, the book eas a success. Zurich 1940-41:%n 1940, Joyce, Nora and Giorgio returned to Zurich, because France w: pied by at the age of 59 in January 1941, so he never saw the finish of 2WW. nti im Ordinary Dublin: set most of his work in Dublin and he wanted to give a realistic portrait of the life of * ordinary people. So he described man's mental, emotional and biological reality. The rebellion against the Church:Joyce challenged Catholicism. His hostility was the revolt of the artist heretic against the official doctrine, or the struggle between the aesthete-heretic and the Church which had taken possession of Irish mind: i ‘ery painful. Style*Joyce was influenced artist's task was to d disciplined prose of ‘Dubliners’, through an exploration of the characters ani the interior monologue with two levels of narration(to give a realistic framework of the characters "thoughts). DUBLINERS Structure and settings: intensity, and lead to a moral, social or sf The others characters form the bacl luman situations and moment of is about childhood and youth hostile to city life, because it degraded the Sii life of citizens. In fact, fiîs Dublin s place where true feeling and compassion for other, do not exist! The last story, “The Dead", was a late addition and it can be considered Joyce's masterpiece. It summarises themes and motifs of the other 14 stories of the collection Joyce wrote ‘The Dead ‘as an epilogue. Characters: were described as afflicted people, for i ci n Everyone in Dublin, seems to be caught up in an endless web of despair. weakness. the Dubliners want to escape from the city, they because of their spiritual Realism and symbolism: The description in stories is realistic. of realismis is mixed with} Symbolism. External details have deeper meanin. For example in “Eveline* the term ‘street organ'(which i salso called ‘harmonium”), takes a symbolic meaning. It symbolises the general ‘disharmony’ of Eveline's family, where the dead mother was a victim of the ther and Eveline shares the same destin, caîh also found religious ; diro e sv of 5 The use of epiphany: Through symbolism, Joyce wanted to take the reader beyond the usual aspect of life. He used a particular technique, the * ugh a trivial gesture, external objects or'banal I this * s | focuses on the . real meaning. Style : His style in®Dubliners”, is characterised elements: E e E ì that pier make up the childhood section, remains not identified. It may be the same little boy for each of them. For the other 12 stories he used a third-person narrator. He often shares a particular character's perspective.\The narrator \tends to disappear in the interior monologue. The protagonist"s pure thoughts are introduced cithout any reporting verbs, which implies the disappearance of the narrator. The syntactical structure maintains Mii eos interjecti exaggerations. The language of ‘Dubliners’, is simple, jective and neutral: Chiasmus can create mel fects. GABRIEL EPIPHANY:Is the final part of the novel and the protagonists are Gabriel Conroy and Grettà, They went at a Christmas party ( climax of communicability, the couj le summarizes the values of communication, love, friendship and other thin î the wife, his social role is different to his real essence as a man. ic importa with the song, he understandihe didn't play a big part in his wife's life. GABRIEL: biblical symbol of fire and death. Symbol of warm and light ( that means culture good social position.Me is fiscally alive but he is emotionally dead because no one loves him, MICHAEL: biblica! symbol of leader of the army to fight against Satan. Despite being dead, he is Salregrte in gretta*s Îîeart. Moreover, he is a hero because he died for love because he was ill and he and cold to achieve Gretta. SNOW:%means solitude, isolation, alienation, purification and rebirth but also reconciliation between life a /_jerso Ut Ut REANSTHESE 13 NO NOCE ind PORUN verso 9 “had braved death” means Michael is a hero, ca > a 3 SUIT PUSSIBILITY -verso 10 used past perfect - verso 11 simple past ERI SS. Ri ore Ho ce PERLE TATA NIPI SNA RIST (ESE) «verso 22 “room” is hotel room, the setting _// I'CHARL ALNE RAR CK IMSA feopLE 01) IFUTORENDE IRIS PEOPIE, verso 27 generous tears means clock time