Scarica James Joyce e Dublinoers e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity!
JAMES JOYCE
He was born in Dublin in 1882, he studied modern languages (italian, french and english) at university
college în Dublin. In 1904 he met Nora Barnacle who later became his wife. He was interested in the
European culture and he moved to Trieste where he worked as a teacher. Heare he met Italo Svevo and
Ezra Pound (His contact With Italo Svevo was important because ispired the creation of his character
Leopold Bloom). In italy he worked on Dubliners (1914) and A Portaît of the Artis as a Young Man (1916).
He moved to Zurich when the first world war broke out where he published his masterpiece Ulysses (1922).
In 1920 he moved to Paris and published his last work Finnegans Wake. In 1940 he returned to Zurich
Where he died in 1941.
* Features: - Settingin Ireland (Dublin)(his mother coutry).
He rebi tholic Curch.
points of view at the same.
: the artist should be invisible trying to express tje toughts and experiences of
other man
ana, Time is subjective, !mportant is the inner world of characters, the aim is to render life
objectively.
Isolation and detachment of the artist from society.
- From a more traditional style to a stage of experiment.
DUBLINERS (1914)
It's a collection of 15 short stories written in 1900. They tells about lives of 15 typical inhabitants of Dublin
in the 20th century. The stories can be divided in three main groups: adolescents (the first three stories)
caracteried by a strong sense of disillusionment and failure; another group of adulthood; the last group
deals with the relationship between the irish individual and public life such as politics, musical world and
the Church (the last story is The c-ad, a portrait of the irish middle clas in condition of mediocri*y. The
protagonist is Gabriel conroy, a typical irish middle clas men who lives like a dead person).
Narrative techniques:
> No omniscient narrator ( rejection of victorian age): absence of a didactic and moral aim
because of the imperonality of the artist.
Use of an internal narrative perpective ( the stories are narrated from the point of view one
of the characters) and eanch story opens in medias res.
> Naturalistic, concise, descriptions full of detailes.
> Free direct speech (That is the thoughts of the characters are introduced without any
reporting verb )
> Valgpipe re: the language suits the age, social class and the role of
charachters.
> Realism mixed with symbolism: deeper meaning of external details
> Epiphany: sudden revelation when details, moments buried for year in our mind memoty
suddenly surface in your mind. (revelation of interior reality)
v
Themes:
> Failure: the characters of the stories have the common nature of failure they experience.
> Paralysis: it's not just a physical condition (caused by external forces) but it's a spiritual
stagnation of the self (linked to religion, politics and culture), a universal lack of growth that
affects the irish nation, it’s a spiritual and physical death.
