Scarica Joyce e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! James Joyce Life James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882, he studied in a Jesuit school where he demonstrated extraordinary academic ability. He went to Paris to study medicine but he changed idea and he starts to writing poems and prose sketches and developing his highly distinctive aesthetic theories. He married Nora barnacle and they moved to Trieste and Rome, where they live for ten years. Joyce published a collection of poetry, Chamber Music, which was followed seven years later by Dubliners (1914). The years of the word war I where fruitful period for him which saw the publication of his semiautobiographical first novel a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. During this period he wrote his great masterpiece, Ulysses, after being declared obscene and banded in Great Britain and America in 1922. Finnegans Wake completely breaking down English syntax and grammar and inventing its own polylinguistic vocabulary. For all the period of the war he lived in Switzerland where he died in 1941. Dubliners 15 short stories divided in 4 groups: childhood (simple language), adolescence, maturity, public life. The story have common elements: Setting: is Dublin seen both grow realistically streets, people, symbolically universal in sense of the modern metropolis. Main theme: the failed to find a way out “paralysis” the typical conditions of modern man in a modern metropolis. Use of the epiphany: the sudden revelation of an emblematic truth of day of the inner reality of the things, thought a bit dialogue of the description of common objects or a usual situation. All the stories are the epiphanies of Dublin. The narrator: attitude of compassionate attitude, irony attitude together with pity to worse the protagonist. Joyce commiserate them because they can’t evolve Paralysis is the incapacity of the man to separate to the traditions, and the incapacity to evolve, to change. The Dubliners are not be able to evolve Epiphanies: an epiphany is a sudden revelation, and in this moment a sudden spiritual awakening is experienced, when ordinary feelings come together to produce a new sudden awareness. Stream of consciousness: is a psychological category which indicates the casual association of thoughts, common impressions and emotions which not think intense but let his mind flow freely. 1) it allowed the reader to inside into the mind of characters showing his rational sides 2) it liberated the novel, the cumbersome ( ingombrante) present of the narrator Eveline A young woman of about nineteen years of age sits by her window, waiting to leave home. She muses on the aspects of her life that are driving her away, while "in her nostrils was the smell of dusty cretonne". Her mother has died as has her older brother Ernest. Her remaining brother, Harry is on the road "in the church decorating business". She fears that her father will beat her as he used to beat her brothers, and she has little loyalty for her sales job. She has fallen for a sailor named Frank who promises to take her with him to Buenos Aires (spelled Buenos Ayres). Before leaving to meet Frank, she hears an organ-grinder outside, which reminds her of a melody that played on an organ on the day her mother died and the promise she made to her mother to look
