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Scarica JOYCE LIFE; STYLE; DUBLINER; GABRIEL'S EPIPHANY; EVELINE; ULYSSES; YES I SAIS YES I WILL e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JOYCE LIFE Joyce was born in 1882 in Dublin, where he studied and became hostile against the Church. In those years began also the conflict with his parents, linked to his artistic potentialities. Growing up he started to see himself as a European and didn't agree with the Irish nationalistic movements. He lived in Paris and then went back to Dublin due to his mother death, there he first dated his future wife on June 19, the day that will become the "Doomsday Day" in "Ulysses". He moved to Trieste, where he met Italo Svevo, and where he spent years filled with difficulties and financial problems. He then published in 1914 the book "Dubliners", which was reviewed enthusiastically by Ezra Pound. He then moved to Zurich. After the court action for his book "Ulysses", when Hitler was starting to invade different European countries he moved back to neutral Switzerland, where he died in 1941. STYLE Joyce, as a Modernist writer, focuses on the inner world of the character. The narrative and facts become of secondary importance, and they're described by different points of view and only to understand how the exterior shapes one's psychology. Time is also subjective and it leads to psychological change. He also believed in the importance of the impersonality of the artist. Using different techniques, such as the interior monologue, the epiphany and free direct speech, he wanted to describe life realistically, and give the reader a true image of it. DUBLINER Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories set in Dublin, published in 1914 by James Joyce. These stories lack action but disclose human situations and lead to a spiritual revelation. They are set in Dublin, the most important city for the poet, described in its every part: it’s the object of his love (it collects all his young memories) but also of his hate (strong nationalism and Catholicism). Epiphany  Epiphanies are a main literary device employed within the fifteen short stories in Dubliners and tend to circulate around moments of realisation of despair and disillusionment. Epiphanies employed by Joyce are often described as "a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether from some object, scene, event, or memorable phase of the mind." But at the end, in spite of the epiphany, they come back to paralysis because they are anti-heroes, inepts. Paralysis and escape  The paralysis Joyce wants to represent results from external and moral forces linked to religion, politic and culture. Dubliners are weak, scared people with a lack of self-knowledge. The opposite theme is ‘escape’, it is originated by a sense of enclosure but characters have no the courage to overcame. Style  His style in Dubliners is characterised by two distinct elements: the interior monologue and patterned repetition of images, chiasmus. In the first three short stories Joyce employs a first-person narrator. For the other 12 stories a third-person narrator is employed. GABRIEL’S EPIPHANY Gretta and Gabriel are in a party and Gretta hears a song which reminds her of a young man, Michael Furey, who died for his love to her. After the party Gabriel looks at her after she tells him about Michal and starts thinking. He realises that he wasn’t really important for Gretta like he thought. They don’t really know each other and the epiphany is this realisation. At the end of the story Gabriel comes to the realization that he has failed to find true love or passion in his life, and that he is on track to live a meaningless life and die a meaningless death. The snow  is a symbol of death because it covers the dead and the living alike; it is the symbol of hopeless solitude and incommunicability; at the same time, it is the symbol of purification. The final image of the falling snow creates a symbolic reconciliation between life and death. EVELINE Eveline Hill sits at a window in her home recalling her childhood. Her thoughts turn to her sometimes-abusive father with whom she lives, and to the prospect of freeing herself from her hard life. Eveline faces a difficult dilemma: remain at home like a dutiful daughter, or leave Dublin with her lover, Frank, who is a sailor. She begins to favour the sunnier memories of her old family life and notes that she did promise her mother to dedicate herself to maintaining the home. The sound of a street organ then reminds her of her mother’s death, and her thoughts change course. At the docks in Dublin, Eveline waits in a crowd to board the ship with Frank. She appears detached and worried. When the boat whistle blows and Frank pulls on her hand to lead her with him, Eveline resists. She clutches the barrier. Paralysis  The verbs which describe her are often verbs of inaction. Eveline is unable to take control of her fate and make a decision. She has grown up in a society where she is powerless and needs someone to save her. Her sense of