Joyce's Ulysses: Inner Journeys and the Use of Time, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica Joyce's Ulysses: Inner Journeys and the Use of Time e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JOYCE”S ULYSSES: INNER JOURNEYS “Ulysses” by James Joyce covers a single day but is thousand pages long. 1. Itissetin Dublin in 1904 and following the physical and psychological wanderings of three characters: Stephen, an artist, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. 2. The first three episodes are centred on Stephen, who, having rejected his father is in search of a paternal figure. 3. The Odyssey of Leopold starts when he leaves home in the morning to go job, brooding about his wife Molly, who left him after the death of their only child. 4. His daily business takes him to various parts of the city including the National Library where he meets Stephen. 5. Before midnight he save Stephen to fight in a brothel. 6. He takes him home but Stephen refuses Bloom's invitation and goes for to meet his uncertain future. The story based on the details of everyday life and the inner life of the characters. It correspond to Odyssey by Homer. JOYCE’USE OF TIME -The use of time in Modemnist fiction was influenced by the notion of the inner time by Bergson that made a distinction between historical time and psychological time. external, lilear and internal, subjective and measured by clock —measured by emotional intensity -Joyce”s use of time reflects his modernist ideas of plot, characters and language. - The short time units of external events are expanded respect to what happens in the minds of the characters. - Joyce rejects the traditional plot because what is important does not depend on the event itself, but on the impression it makes on human consciousness. - Joyce uses the interior monologue to describe the continuous flow and sensation of human mind