Scarica James Joyce Dubliners Ulysses. e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JOYCE Joyce was a Modernist writer. His themes are reworked in such a way as to become gradually less relevant than the 'narrative' itself. The facts become confused, they are explored from different points of view simultaneously and are presented as 'clues' and not through the voice of an omniscient narrator. Joyce set all his works in Ireland and mostly in the city of Dublin. His effort was to give a realistic portrait of the life of ordinary people doing ordinary things and living ordinary lives. Time is not perceived as objective but as subjective, leading to psychological change. Joyce believed in the impersonality of the artist. The artist's task was to render life objectively in order to give back to the readers a true image of it and this necessarily led to the isolation of the artist from society. As his works did not have to express the author's viewpoint, Joyce used different points of view and narrative techniques. Dubliners Dubliners consists of 15 short stories, which all lack obvious action, but they disclose human moments of intensity, and lead to a moral, social or spiritual revelation. The opening stories deal with childhood and youth in Dublin; the others, advancing in time, concern the middle years of characters and their social, political or religious affairs. Joyce’ Dublin is a place where true feeling and compassion for others doesn’t exist. The last story, The Dead, summarises themes of the other 14 stories but it functions more as an epilogue. Paralysis is a pervasive theme. Joyce portray Dubliners as afflicted people, everyone in Dublin seems to be captured in an endless web of despair. However, the moral centre of Dubliners is not paralysis alone but also its revelation to victims. The main theme is 'escape and its consequent failure. The description in each story is realistic with many external details, even the most unpleasant and depressing ones. The use of realism is mixed with symbolism, since external details generally have a deeper meaning. Joyce symbolism’s aim was to take the reader beyond the usual aspects of life through the analysis of the particular. To this end he employed a peculiar technique called epiphany, that is the sudden revelation of an interior reality caused by trivial events of everyday life. So at these revelatory moments the reader's attention focuses on the real meaning of the narrative. Ulysses The whole novel takes place on a single day, Thursday, June 16, 1904, during which three main characters wake up, have various encounters in Dublin and go to sleep eighteen hours later. The central character, Leopold Bloom, is Joyce’s common man. He leaves the house at eight o’ clock to buy his breakfast and returns at two the following morning. During his wanderings, Bloom meets Stephen Dedalus, an alienated artist who momentarily becomes his adopted son. Ulysses is the climax of Joyce’s creativity and it was designed a detailed portrait of ordinary life on an ordinary Dublin day. He made the atmosphere of Dublin, the feelings, inseparable from his human characters in such a way to make Dublin itself a character in this novel. As its title suggests, Ulysses is related to Homer’s great epic the Odyssey for its structural framework, Joyce arranged Its characters and events around Homer’s heroic model, with Bloom as the hero Ulysses, Dedalus as his son Telemachus and Molly as Penelope. So, Joyce's Ulysses is a modern epic in prose based on the mythical method, resulting from the progress made by psychology, ethnology and anthropology, rather than on the narrative method. This allowed Joyce to give to his characters another dimension and to express the universal in the particular. In Ulysses he achieved a new form of realism.
