Scarica James Joyce (The Dubliners, The Ulysses) e più Dispense in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JAMES JOYCE James Joyce was born in Dublin into a middle-class Catholic family. He was educated during his childhood by the Jesuits in two different colleges. He then dedicated himself to the study of modern languages at the University of Dublin, a period in which he began to write. In 1905, after having met love, he moved with Nora Barnacle to Trieste, because if he stayed in Dublin he’ll be paralyzed like all Dubliners, where he met Italo Svevo. Here he composes The Dubliners, before the world war which forces him to move to Zurich where he instead will compose his masterpiece Ulysses and where, after various other movements due to the war, he will die in 1941. Literary techniques He sets all or almost all of his events in Ireland and in particular in Dublin, and describes the details with great realism and attention. He uses the third-person-narrator and during the narration he assumes different points of view of the same event from the different characters whose psychology and interiority is analyzed through the presence of internal monologues or the famous stream of consciousness that expressed thoughts, considerations of the same protagonist without an organization or a logical thread. The Dubliners Published in 1914 under the pseudonym Stephen Dedalus, it is a collection of 15 short stories that in the Irish setting paint the stories of some individuals who live as if they were dead, without knowing they are living; they want to act but they are spiritually paralyzed as contemporary society is paralyzed. Dublin is a city that for him possesses a duality; on one side it is a source of inspiration for him, on the other it is dominated by a certain underdevelopment and traps his inhabitants. In all the stories, characterized by a medias-res beginning and narrated directly by the protagonist, there is a moment in which, due to a specific event, he becomes aware of himself and of his state of physical and mental "paralysis" (epiphany). She was fast asleep The scene takes place in a bedroom where Gabriel is looking at his wife Gretta sleep. She earlier had confessed her love for Michael Furey, her first love who committed suicide for her. Gabriel realizes that he has never really known his wife and the metaphor of men as shadows begins to appear. In fact they live in a society that kills them inside and leads them to live passively like shadows. He then imagines seeing Furey standing under a tree, slowly accompanied by other figures but he is distracted by the sound of the snow that has started to fall again (which in the passage becomes a symbol of oblivion and death). The Ulysses It is a long novel set in and around Dublin in a single day. Published by Silvia Beach after many refused to publish it as scandalous. In 18 episodes the stories of three characters are narrated: in the first three episodes called "Telemachia" the protagonist is Stephen Dedalus, in episodes 4-15 called "The Odyssey" the protagonist is Leopold Bloom, finally in the section "Nostos" the protagonist is Molly, Leopold's wife. Joyce's Ulysses, in continuous reference to classical mythology, transposes the Odyssey of human conditions from every point of view and that journey through them. Style and language are imaginative, puns are used to make particular sound effects and there are constant references to majestic classicism that contrasts with a decadent modernity. Yes I said yes I will yes The passage is the conclusion of the Ulysses, represented by a long flux of thoughts by Molly Bloom. She remembers how Bloom proposed to her. She took her time looking around the promontory of Howth and mentally underlining everything she saw, name the sea, the sky, the sailors playing all birds fly, the Spanish girls laughing or the old castle, then she asks Bloom to ask her again and she finally said yes.
