James Joyce, Dubliners, Eveline., Sintesi del corso di Inglese

Scarica James Joyce, Dubliners, Eveline. e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! He was born in Dublin in 1882. He studied modern language at University College in Dublin until 1902. He moved to Paris to study medicine but he changes his mind and started to write poems and prose sketches and developing his highly distinctive atheistic theories. He returned back after his mother death and there he met Nora Barnacle with whom he leave Ireland and go to the continent. Joyce worked in Trieste as English teacher and here he had two children. Joyce published a collection of poetry and after seven years his masterpiece “ Dubliners”. During the world war Joyce go to neutral Switzerland where he saw the publication of some works: his autobiographical novel and his masterpiece “Ulysses” that was declared obscene and banned in Britain and America and was publish only in Paris (1922). In the same time he worked on his experimental novel “Finnegans Wake” to brake completely English syntax and grammar and inventing its own polylinguistic vocabulary. Famously he said that he wants to keep literary historians busy for the next four hundred years.A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce make frequent use of interior monologue, both direct and indirect. Through this technique, the writer almost disappears and readers find themselves directly inside a character’s mind. Epiphanies Joyce’s stories and novels are characterized by peaks of intensity in the narrator that the writer calls “epiphanies”. An epiphany is a sudden revelation, it is a moment in which thoughts and filings come together to produce a new sudden awareness. DUBLINERS Dubliners is a collection of short stories in which the theme of paralysis unified them. The stories are arranged in four groups that correspond to four “phases” of life: • childhood; • adolescence; • maturity; • public life. A significant theme in all the stories is the feeling of paralysis that many of the characters experience as a result of being tied (legati) to antiquated and limited cultural and social traditions. The last story, “The Dead”, can be considered Joyce’s first masterpiece. It stands out (si distingue) from other fourteen stories because however similar in theme it is denser. Narrative technique The omniscient narrator and the single point of view are rejected: each story is told from the perspective of a character (dalla prospettiva del personaggio). The linguistic register is varied, since the language used suits (si adatta) the age, the social class and the role of the characters. The use of epiphany The description in each story is realistic and concise with abundance of external details, even the most unpleasant. The use of realism is mixed with symbolism (details have a deeper meaning). Understanding the epiphany in each story is often the key to the story itself. JAMES JOYCE The Joyce’s theory of the epiphany suggests the search for something existing under the surface of things and events. The episode described is apparently unimportant but essential to the life of the characters. A pervasive theme: paralysis The paralysis of Dublin which Joyce wanted to portrait is both physical and moral linked to (legata alla) religion, politics and culture. Joyce’s Dubliners accept their condition because they are not aware of it (non sono consapevoli) or because they lack the courage (gli manca il coraggio) to break the chains that bind them (di rompere le catene che li legano). But there is not paralysis alone but also its revelation to its victims. The coming to awareness (la presa di coscienza) marks the climax (segna il culmine) of these stories. The main theme is the failure to find a way out (via di uscita) of paralysis. None of characters succeeds (riesce): they live as exiles at home, unable to cut the bonds (in grado di tagliare i legami) that tie them (che li legano) to their own world. EVELINE The protagonist of this short story is Eveline, a nineteen-year-old girl, who, at the beginning of the story, looks out of the window. While she is looking outside, she listens to a pipe organ playing, which recalls to her mind a song she heard before her mother’s death. She remembers her childhood. She is terrifying by his father who abuses her and she feels frustrated because of her unpretentious job as a shop assistant. Yet, she has planned to go with a sailor called Frank to Buenos Aires. Before leaving, she holds two letters: one is for Harry, her brother, and the other is for her father. She is in doubt: is it better to stay or to leave her family nest for the unknown? The memory of her mother’s dull and sad life pushes her to leave. However, when she arrives at the port with Frank and they are embarking, Eveline thinks again about her past, especially to the vow she made to her mother, promising she would have keep the family together. Consequently, she stands still and doesn’t follow her boyfriend. Frank, who has already embarked on the ship, shouts at her inviting her to join him. At the end of the story, though, he is forced to leave without her. In “Eveline,” Joyce’s presents the dilemma faced by a young woman who must either care for her father and children or follow her boyfriend, a sailor who had a home in Buenos Aires. Eveline is a nineteen years old girl who is planning to leave Ireland forever with a sailor whose name is Frank. At the start Eveline was in her house, she sat at the window in the evening, she could smell of the dusty cretonne . She looked at the people passing outside, and she start to remember the past, when she was a child when she was a girl out there and played with his brothers and other children and her father was not so bad.. Now one of her brothers was died and also Tizzie Dunn was died (a child that played with Eveline). Others friends of Eveline returned in England. And also Evelin’s mother was died. Her old father dislikes him and often threatens her with violence accusing her of squandering his money. Eveline lives alone with him as her brother has gone away (one died) and her mother died after life of sacrifice. Evelin want to run away with a sailor frank. But the memory of a promise that Eveline made to her mother before she died prevents it from starting. In fact she promised to her mother that she keep the home together. She was paralyzed because she don't know if she want leave Irish or not. She had every reason to leave Dublin: -She has to work hard in the store and is accused of squandering money by his father. Her father abused to her -nobody protects her