Scarica James Joyce: Dubliners; Ulysses; Eveline. e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! James Joyce James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. He will travel a lot during his life, however he will always be linked to his hometown. Joyce is a modern writer and a rebel against the church. In his works the facts are always explored simultaneously from different points of view and not by the voice of an omniscient narrator, but there is always the use of the third person; many of his works begin in medias res, so in the meantime of the action and is analysed a particular moment rather than a long period of time (as in Ulysses, set entirely in a single day). His works focus on the characters' thoughts and introspectiveness rather than descriptions. He does not follow the chronological course of time but follows the thoughts of the protagonists, using many flashbacks and flashforwards. joyce's style is influenced by the French symbolists (meanings that go beyond objective reality). He thinks that the artist's task was to render life objective and to do so the artist had to isolate himself from reality and use different points of view (relativism) and different narrative techniques based on the character he has to represent: interior monologue, stream of consciousness technique with use of words without punctuation and grammatical connections, with verbs in the infinitive. Dubliners Joyce wrote Dubliners, a collection of 15 short stories set in Dublin. Joyce, being a Modernist novelist, was hostile to the city life because he thinks it degrades its citizens. In fact sublin is presented as a place where true feelings and compassion do not exist. Although everyone tries to escape from this city, no one succeeds. The theme of paralysis is present: the characters are both physical and moral weak, unable to act and escape because they are afraid of failure, despite feeling imprisoned in the society in which they live. It follows that these characters never live their lives fully. The descriptions of the stories are realistic and full of detail with a deeper symbolic meaning; there is also the color symbolism: brown, gray and yellow symbolize the atmosphere of paralysis and discomfort. There is a particular technique called "Epiphany": the character realise something sudden that reveals the truth, capturing the reader's attention. The language is simple and objective, there is the presence of the interior monologue and the chiasmus, used to create a melodic effect. Ulysses A very important work of Joyce is Ulysses, which tells the story of Mr Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly and the poet Stephen (which will be temporarily adopted by Mr Leopold) in a single day: June 16, 1904, in Dublin. The title is oxymoronic: Ulysses is a mythological hero who lives and wins many challenges while Mr Leopold is a defeated man, who one morning prepares his wife's breakfast and leaves the house aware that his wife will meet his lover in that same house. The protagonist will take a walk out in the city and the story will resume episodes of the odyssey lived by Mr Leopold in a squalid way. The Mitical Method is present, which consists in rappresent a glorious past to highlight the squalor of the present society, a society devastated by war. One of the techniques present in this novel is the stream of consciousness technique that we can see in "Molly Bloom's train of thoughts" when his wife Molly thinks back to the moment she said yes to her husband, agreeing to be her wife. It is a speech made following the woman's thoughts, without using grammatical connections or punctuation.
