James Joyce, Dublin 1882, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica James Joyce, Dublin 1882 e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JAMES JOYCE James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882, and in 1902 he moved to Paris to study medicine, but he soon dedicated himself to writing poems. Two years later he met Nora Barnacle, and in 1905 they moved to Trieste. At the outbreak of World War 1 moved to Zurich where he died in 1941. In 1914 he published his first short stories in a collection called “Dubliners”, 2 years later he published “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, which is a sort of semiautobiographical novel. Lastly, in 1922, after being banned in Britain and America, he published his masterpiece “Ulysses”. Joyce’s writings make frequent use of interior monologue, which allows to the writer to disappears, and to the reader, to find himself inside a character’s mind. Moreover, his stories are characterized by peaks of intensity in the narration that he called “epiphany”, it is a moment in which ordinary thoughts and feelings come together to produce a new sudden awareness. (this instant can be compared to Woolf’s idea of “vision”). Dubliners is a collection published in 1914 which contains some short stories arranged in 4 groups that correspond to 4 phases of life: - childhood - adolescence - maturity - public life A significant theme in all the stories is the feeling of paralysis, in fact Joyce defined Dublin as “the center of paralysis”. However, the stories are characterized by a descriptive realism and the absence of a moralizing narrative voice. The last story is the most important: The Dead. • The Dead begins with an after-Christmas party at the house of Miss Kate and Miss Julia, which are also the aunts of the protagonist: Gabriel Conroy. Gabriel goes to the party with his wife Gretta, and when they reach to their hotel room, he realizes that she is crying, she suddenly has an epiphany. Listening an old song, she remembered her first love Michael Furey. On hearing this account, Gabriel has his own epiphany, and when Gretta falls asleep he looks outside the window, where the snow is falling, and he realizes the insignificance of his own life. • Although The Dead can still be considered realistic, at the same time it is