Scarica James Joyce, Virginia Woolf e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JAMES JOYCE James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. he attended school and graduated in modern literature in 1902. his interest was only in European literature, so much so that he felt much more a European man than an Irishman. he moved to France for a while, but his mother's death forced him to return to Dublin. he met Nora Barnacle and fell in love with her. together they moved to Italy, where he met Italo Svevo. Joyce and Nora had two children and got married in 1931. the years that passed that they saw in Italy, were not simple from an economic point of view. he wrote many books, including "Dubliners". Dubliners is a collection of stories of people born and lived in Dublin. this poem, together with "portrait", raised his economic situation. Hitler's advance into Europe forced Joyce to travel to a neutral territory like Switzerland, where he died in January 1941. his works did not give the author's point of view, but gave more points of view, and the narrative technique was appropriate to the various characters. the language is broken up, with a succession of words without punctuation and without grammatical connections. Joyce is defined as a modern novelist, precisely because he writes without punctuation and therefore follows the stream of consciousness. we therefore see a psychological, interior and uncertain time. he is a persona that reflects the uncertainty of the period. Joyce uses this prose to make readers understand what our soul really thinks. *DUBLINERS: this collection tells the stories of 15 people, who in common have only the fact of being from Dublin and the lack of action. These stories follow 4 stands: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. They are stories that all have the same length, except the last, which is the longest one, and which is defined as Joyce manifest. Both direct and indirect speech are used within the stories. There is a dose of realism combined with one of symbolism. The main theme is social paralysis, that is the social roles in which the characters find themselves, from they cannot move. *EVELINE: the story "Eveline" is about a 19-year-old girl who has the opportunity to change her difficult life in Dublin. She decided to run away with her boyfriend, but the moment she had to board, she heard the sound of an organ, which reminded her of the fact that her mother had told her to take care of her family. She then remained in Dublin, trapped in the suffocating society. VIRGINIA WOOLF Virginia wolf, was born in 1882. her father was a prominent Victorian-era scholar, so she lived in a philosophical and literary atmosphere. the death of her mother caused a nervous breakdown. she began to rebel against the tyrannical character of her father, and it was only after her death in 1904 that she began her career as a writer. she became a member of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of people who shared passions and who took her name from a place in London. she in 1912 she married Leonard wolf, and in 1915 she published her first novel. she at the same time she entered a nursing home for attempting suicide through drugs. in 1929, she delivered two readings in Cambridge, which later became "a room of one's own," in which she expressed various connections between women and literature. World War II increased her fears and anxieties, in fact, at the age of 25, she drowned herself in a river. THE USA IN THE FIRST DECADES OF THE 20TH CENTURY
