James Joyce + opere: "Ulysses", "Dubliners", Appunti di Inglese

Scarica James Joyce + opere: "Ulysses", "Dubliners" e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Key points » He was born in Dul iblin into a middle-class Catholic family. «He left Ireland in voluntary exile, livii ing in Trieste and Paris. * He wrote works centred on Ireland and, more specifically, on the Dublin he knew. s Born n SSA Lal and a partly autobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Uivsse] 7 im 1882 info a middte James Joyce. (1882-1941) Early life in Dublin. James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882 into a middle-class Siminvite Catholic family, whose social status and financial resources gradually diminished during his childhood. His father had been an ardent supporter of Charles Parnell, the leader of the dol IDE congeda movement for Home Rule for Ireland, but after Parnell’s death in 1891 he had retired from \penrone) politics and social life. As such, he became representative for Joyce ofthe failures ofhis ‘ own country. Joyce attended two Jesuit schools, then went on to study modern languages at University College, Dublin, where he graduated. A life of self-imposed exile. Finding life in Ireland an obstacle to his own artistic - DUBLINERI development, in 1902 Joyce committed himself to a life of self-imposed exile. He went first , to Paris, then to Pola in 1904 and finally to Trieste. In Trieste, Joyce finished his firsttwo Triew@ © important works: Dubliners (1914), a collection of short stories, Young Man (1916). At the outbreak of World War I, Joyce left for + Inaf become poor becowse Zurich, where he started working on his masterpiece, Dlysses. His after World of nia fafher during lis health had always been poor, especially his eyesight, and in 1917 W&r fivat childhoad, 4 he underwent the first of many eye-operations against oncoming uvia, The commolie diurch tumed agnimil blindness. Sl bo CHARLES PARNELL, becowse his offair In 1920 he moved to Paris, where Joyce was considered one of the pestihei with A Anavried weaman prophets of Modernism and where Ulysses was finally publishedîn ‘7, ‘xi. Tue. Themes of bettoyoi and 1922. Inthe intellectual and artistic milieu of Paris, Joyce went on the temporary nofuve ef fawa to write his last novel, Finnegans Wake, on which he began work inflvenced Jdeeply 3 in 1923 and which was published in 1939, In 1940, when France a s55" 4 was occupied by the Germans, Joyce and his family returned to y freclin ia choiche of ich, where he diedi ANTI- HEADES al Fagoni Sai Zurich, where he died in 1941. He dim his rejeclion of Ripr Joyce and Ireland. The relationship between Joyce and Ireland Vv a Simpotize È mec er “Sa = is complex. On the Surface he seems to have rejected everything eve», hina, with +he__ MS Sar Uwiverniby » he quaduaftà. that was Irish; at a deeper level, though, all of Joyces works are ‘© Tris nazionalisi 5 vera centred on Ireland and, more specifically, on the Dublin he knew. but movement Early 20th-century Dublin, with its people, streets, houses and AU f roy { language, occupies every page written by Joyce, who reproduces work E I t with great care for precise details. Dublin was for him, as he sta À È He became said, the ‘omphalos, or navel, of the world. Suauin. 0. v&ligiovs scephic. SE ia De journey of Joyce's narrative. Joyces life and development as an artist are clearly ' related. His self-imposed exile was necessary not only to give him the unrestricted artistic roy fimished his firsf Fo importanti? woyks: QUBUNELS n comechvon 9f xhovî rari, and a culdilogva ghi cod navali A POMAT @FTHE ARTI AS A YOUNG “MAN. Affev W.w.I ne arave Ta Zurich, unere Le started wovKing ou his Mm [Q10, uhen France occupied by the Cevmans Moyee avud his famity move +90 Pavis uhere ine yea, toler. im 1902 He self-impose evile +hen he went in Paris, then climate he needed, but also to give him the objectivity he needed to write about Ireland with the necessary emotional and intellectual ‘detachment. In parallel with this movement in his life, Joyce novels show a similar shift ‘from the particular to the universal. The journey of his narrative was from small to large, from the connected short stories of Dubliners to the autobiographical novel A Portrait ofti ‘tist as a Young Mari, to that great picture of Dublin life that is Ulysses. Also, the movement was from the contains some lyrics) to the epic style of Ulysses, modelled on Homer Odyssey, as its +5 Pola and affev to TRIEME: Y 4 title implies. malterpiece: ULYSSES. publizthed & in favis in | asl JOYCE AND 1922 he IRLAND : 4 / ‘seems Phaf he © F vereted eueviliing was lvish but au of Joyce works ave centived on Irland: peopte, haustei and language wila died Tree t@—— <a ddl BUILD UP YOUR COMPETENCES °° Work out the key ideas Move through literature istening Li e following | 1 Reading Choose true (7) or false (F). Correct the 3 Listening Listen to the 9 ri Italo | James Joyce and passage about James Joyce ani Italo Svevo false satana. Svevo. Answer the questions. TRACK 053 : iron gui: +srosong 1 How was Joyce friendship with Italo Svevo a va, during his childhood. TE Lion so 2 Life in Ireland had become too hard for him, 2 What was their connection? so he decided to go abroad to make a living. T F 3 Whatwasthe main difference in their writing style? 3 Ulysses was published in Paris in 1922, the city 4 Inwhat Joycean character is Svevo recognizable? where Joyce had moved two years earlier. TF È U 5 What is Svevo's masterpiece? 4 Joyce works have nothing to do with Ireland. T_F 6 When was it published? 5 Joyce's self-imposed exile gave him the objectivity he needed to write about Ireland. T F 1 | Be an independent learner 2 Reading Answer the questions. 4 Spesking James Joyce spent years of his life : * sg in Trieste, where he also worked English 1 Which three European towns did Joyce live in du RR I ee da ioni x the Berlitz language school. Surf the net es - information about his li d his 2 What are his main works and which one is party work as a teacher. Then share i your autobiographical? research with your classmates. 3 Can we say that by leaving Ireland he cut all ties to is nati 2 his native country? Tm 4 What is meant by ‘the journey of Joyce" narrative’? T- cottection of fificem stovf sfoviet * tramin&ò she FAILURE ©F SELF -REALIZATION im au nbabitzani Bubu in BloeRAPHICAL and PSYCHOLOGICAL DLFAIL. DBubliners Fist fovtiesni > Hhe lafis he si loncpeyT y(ovy “dhe book was priginauy TURNSO ST 1 (191 4) Bow by pustia mevd be lannaesad “The Dead” ili IMMORAL st dela it Li ; vvifivtate Ao fe e Gti Sii o pini ta 199? Circumstances of publication. Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories, in each of which the failure of self-realization of an inhabitani ini ined i Key points biographical and psychological detail. The first fourteen stories had all been written by * Life in Dublin seen spiclato 1905, when the book was originally turned down by publishers; they thought it ‘immoral’ si Paanes: di its(pitilessìportrait of Irish city life and also objected to the mention lac i one gi people in it. The last and longest story, The Dead} was finished by 1907. The complete maturity and public life. collection, however, only came out in 1914. * A style both realistic and symbolic. A portrait of Dublin life. Joyces first great portrait of Dublin life came with Dubliners. Bustina Cin sein Ublinà » « ci seem RARALISY As Joyce later stated: “My i i to write a chapter of the moral history ofmy _i NESDNDE +e cantar ‘ountry and I chose Dublin for the scene beca hat city seemed to me fhe centre of of PARALYSIS. DELA Coma Ro ; TA paralysis”. This “paralysis” is thep of will} courage and self-knowledge that leads ordinary men and women to accept the limitations imposed by the social context they live sa sof will, in. The sense of paralysis, of stagnation, runs through all fifteen stories and is presented rymeds oa See 1 2 i ic life. Fon VeÀ cont QUE SIVE in four stages: childhood, youth, maturity and public life. a e tre Ioesed ah Realism and symbolism in Dubliners. 4 appasent\y The style of Dubliners is complex. Apparently, veli sie, Fu iva it is realistic to the degree of perfectly recreating the poval. ave explain pira of può. characters, places, streets, pubs and idioms of DI Ce vsveet, gia contemporary Dublin. On the other hand, Joyce 7 pes ou the oimes makes use of a subtle symbolic effect which gives | pe Ri: ea 5 HAND )eyce the common object unforeseen depth and becomes è «VI una, 13° 7 Y[2' the key to a new, more conscious, view of reality. } MAVANTY Joyce himself coined the definition “epiphany” — PUBLIC LIFE. Y sat which means ‘manifestation, showing, as in the comìeò bhe: showing of the Christ child to the Magi - to fepiehen) indicate that moment when a simple object or fact, I an ordinary situation, suddenly explodes with L meaning and makes a person realise his/her uich meons (usually miserable) condition. MANI if È o pa Los) An evening in the Temple Bar area, and “udicale > Gram Momento wHen 4 HMPLE FALC, AN ORDINARY NIVATI\ON mates 0 person reuize nis/her miserabile condì hon