James Joyce, Dubliners, The dead, Evelyn, Finnegan Wake, Ulysses, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica James Joyce, Dubliners, The dead, Evelyn, Finnegan Wake, Ulysses e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! James Joyce Biography - Born in Dublin (that was a place of paralysis and repression) in 1882. - He attended in a Jesuit school but for economic problems he was sent in a local school, and late in another jesuit school. - He studied English, Italian and French in the university of Dublin, and read European literature. He was very good at languages. - He believed Ireland should permit artists their freedom and reduce the power of the Church so he moved to Europe. He had a conflicted relationship with Dublin, of love and hate. On the one hand he was disgusted by the atmosphere of paralysis, decay, on the other hand he admired its humanity and culture. - He left Ireland two times to go first in Paris and then in Italy (Trieste). Joyce worked as a teacher of English in Trieste, where he with his wife spent 10 years there. He liked Italy very much, in fact he gave his children two Italian names. - In the 1904 he met Nora Barnacle, who became his life-long companion and mother of his two children. - The couple, after the publication of Ulysses moved abroad and Joyce worked as a teacher of English in Trieste. - He built a friendship with Italo Svevo - Ulysses would become a Modernist text, influencing future generation of writers - In the war-time he moved in Zurich and then to Paris again, where he met another supporter, Sylvia Beach, then he finally published Ulysses as a book in 1922. - Then he moved again from Paris to Zurich where he died in the 1941. Dubliners 1914 - Is a collection of 15 short stories in which Joyce paints a portrait of Dublin life in the 20th century. - The stories are divided into 4 groups of different stages of human life ‣ Childhood ‣ Teen years ‣ Maturity ‣ Public life - There’re some words to understand the contest: ‣ Epiphany: is a brief moment of deep understatement of his character but over they don’t act upon. di 1 4 ‣ Stream of consciousness: he starts to portrait what happens in the head of one human being, moment by moment. He writes the words just like they are in our minds. ‣ Paralysis: Dublin is described as a provincial city. Centre of social and psychological “paralysis” that conditions the life of his inhabitant. He had a conflicted relationship with Dublin, of love and hate. On the one hand he was disgusted by the atmosphere of paralysis, decay, on the other hand he admired its humanity and culture. Paralysis is not just physical, but also moral and spiritual ‣Epicleti: a series of stories about everyday life whose conversation into art are used to uplift their readers. The dead - It’s the last and longest short story of Joyce. - Passage between short stories and novels, for this is longer that the others - It’s set during a Christmas party organized by Gabriel’s aunt. The protagonists of the story are Gretta and Gabriel, a married couple that due to a song discover some truth about themselves. We can see what Joyce means for epiphany, because when Gretta hears a song that reminds her of her past all her memories return to surface, and she remembers of a boy she used to know long time ago, a boy who died to see her one last time. Once Gretta fell asleep, her husband reflects on the story she just told him, he thinks about the fact the he really doesn’t know his wife, and that he’s just a small part of her life. At the beginning he’s jealous of Michael Fury, but then he regrets it and starts to think about the dead, and the snow that is gonna cover all bodies, both the living and the dead ones. - THEMES: • Paralysis: the paralysis of life in Dublin is symbolized by the Christmas party and all its irish nationalist rituals. And Gabriel is paralyzed by his duties of husband and public man. • Escape: escape: we might think that Gabriel is going to go away from Dublin, we can understand the identification with Joyce and so may think that as the writer, he’s gonna take a journey towards Europe. • Epiphany: Gabriel has his climix when he realizes that the people of the party are dead on a spiritual level, dying of boredom and social limits, while the past love of Gretta had the courage to choose to die for love, to go against the social rules. Evelyn - Eveline is the fourth story of the Dubliners and the protagonist is between adolescence and adult- life. - PLOT: The story talks about Eveline’s thoughts about her past and her future, and how her feelings will determine the decision she’ll make. - The short stories doesn’t have an introduction, or an end because they are moments took randomly in the life of the characters. Also the intention of Joyce in writing the Dubliners was to show us the various moments of the life of a person. - The revelation of this story is that Eveline would like to run away with his love Frank and leave her past behind but she finds herself paralyzed and at the end she is not able to change her life. The di 2 4