James Joyce- Dubliners e Ulysses, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica James Joyce- Dubliners e Ulysses e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! He was born in Dublin in 1882, he started studying languages and writing articles in college. He moved to Trieste where he started teaching and working on two of his best-known literary works: Dubliners (1914), a collection of short stories, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). In Trieste he became friends with the Italian writer Italo Svevo, when the first War broke out he moved to Zurich here he started working on his masterpiece, Ulysses (1922). He died in Zurich in 1941. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of Modernism. Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories that revolve around the lives of 15 typical inhabitants of the city of Dublin. The stories can be divided in three main groups: childhood, adulthood (ex. Eveline), public life (ex. The Dead). DUBLIN: the Dublin that Joyce portrays is a stati and provincial town, this affect the lives of its inhabitants who are represented as prisoner in a city that does not give them the chance to grow. PARALYSIS: The universal condition of inaction that affects all the inhabitants of Dublin. Physical and spiritual (ex. Eveline) EPIPHANY: Moment in which the characters experience the sudden revelation of their condition of paralysis, it doesn’t lead to a change but it simply makes them aware of how dead and paralysed they are. Narrative technique: Each story is told from the perspective of a character. Joyce uses free direct speech and free direct thought: it consists of the direct presentation of the protagonist’s thoughts. There’s a limited intervention on the part of the narrator. EVELINE: Eveline describes the life of a 19-year-old girl who has the chance to change her routine life (made of sacrifices: she takes care of two young siblings and gives over her whole salary for the family) following her boyfriend Frank to Buenos Aires but she is unable to leave her family in Dublin because she is paralysed by a sense of guilt and responsibility thinking about the promise she made to her dying mother to take care of her brothers. Eveline stands on the pier at story's end, frozen in place by fear and guilt. She wants to leave Ireland, she thinks she deserves a better life and that she has the right to happiness, but she quite literally cannot move, speak, or even express emotion on her face. Most of the story takes place in the girl’s mind. However, her thoughts are not arranged in chronological order and wander from past to present and future.