Scarica James Joyce, the dubliners, eveline, ulysses e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JAMES JOYCE ➔ One of the first modernist writers in England ➔ He was born and died in Dublin ➔ During World War 1 he moved to Zurich where later he wrote ‘Ulysses’ ➔ He moved very often because he was afraid of the persecutions THEDUBLINERS - 1914 - A collection of 15 short stories in a chronological order (children, adolescent, maturity, public life) - A common theme within the stories is the feeling of paralysis that the characters experience being tied to limiting social traditions - - Another important aspect of the short stories is the ‘epiphany’ or ‘revelation’, a moment of spiritual awakening that marks the story’s climax - Finally another common theme is escape, in fact the character feeling tied up decides to escape but all their attempts are destined to fail STREAMOFCONSCIOUSNESS - a very common style of modernism, introduced in the 20th century - the thoughts don’t follow a chronological order - flashbacks and jumps in the future are used - it removes punctuation and syntactical structure - it has a rhythm EVELINE - Eveline is a 19 years old young girl sitting at a window recalling her childhood, while looking at a field where she used to play as a child. - She wants to escape from her house with her boyfriend Frank, a sailor, who has a house in Buenos Aires. - She wonders about how her life was before her mother’s death, her relationship with her father and how it changed after it. - She also recalls her dead brother and the one that doesn’t live with her and her father anymore. - She lives with her father and wants to escape because of him. - He is an abusive and violent man who often threatens her with violence. Even though he was not always the best father, he changed after his wife died, when he started to drink and to lose control of his life. - Eveline has mixed feelings towards her father. - Although she wants to leave, she feels guilty leaving her father all by himself. - In fact, eventually, when she’s about to leave, she changes her mind and decides to get back home, and continue to be a submissive daughter. ULYSSES - On 2 February 1922, the novel Ulysses was published for the first time in Paris. - The author, who turned 40 that very same day, was a little-known Irish writer called James Joyce. - Ulysses recounts the events of a single day (16 July 1904) in the lives of two men, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. - Joyce makes use of the simple, everyday actions of these two characters going around Dublin to investigate several topics, such as philosophy, politics, religion, love, sex and friendship. - Ulysses is a revolutionary novel: it was written in multiple styles, and it often uses a ‘stream of consciousness’, a technique which tries to put into writing the way thoughts are perceived in the mind. - Furthermore, the book is full of learned hidden references; Joyce said that he wanted “to keep the professors busy for centuries”. - Indeed, he has kept them busy for 100 years already. - Ulysses is a monumental work, innovative, dense, experimental, profound, and often very funny. - Many critics consider it the greatest English language novel of the 20th century. - It is celebrated every year in Dublin on the day of the events in the book (16 July) known as Bloomsday. - The celebrations include cultural events, readings, and pub crawls that retrace Bloom’s steps around the city. This year, for the 100th anniversary, the celebrations started on 2 February, the date of the book’s first publication, and will end on Bloomsday. - The novel draws its structure from myth: Homer’s “Odyssey” - Parallels are created between the two works by analogy and antithesis - In the “Odyssey”, Odysseus undertakes a heroic journey as he seeks to return home, and his wanderings are reflected in Leopold Bloom’s wanderings around Dublin and his finally reaching his house. - The 18 episodes of “Ulysses” correspond loosely to episodes in the “Odyssey” - The three principal characters in “Ulysses” provide further parallels with the “Odyssey”
