RIASSUNTI JAMES JOYCE (EPIPHANIES, THE DEAD, ULYSSES) IN INGLESE, Sintesi del corso di Inglese

Scarica RIASSUNTI JAMES JOYCE (EPIPHANIES, THE DEAD, ULYSSES) IN INGLESE e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! JAMES JOYCE EPIPHANIES: Is an aside manifestation. It is when in our mind when we see some place or we smell some perfume, we live again ordinary thoughts and feelings as well we have lived it in that first moment. For Joyce the manifestation is fells by the five senses, especially the auditory sense for example immediately the songs DUBLINERS: Is a collection of short stories where the main theme is the life of ordinary people who lived in Dublin. This collection is devises in four parts such as in four phases can be devise the life of the people:  Childhood  Adolescence (Eveline)  Maturity  Public life (The Dead) In this stories is common the the theme of the feeling of paralysis because Joyce defines Dublin as “the centre of paralysis” for the backwardness of that city and the limited curtural and social traditions Stylistically the stories in Dubliners are written in an apparently traditional way: Joyce doesn’t intervene with his opinions or comments, he doesn’t describes characters and he uses the symbolism. This for concentrate the attention of the reader to the significant themes THE DEAD: After a Christmas dinner party at the house of Gabriel’s sister, Kate and Julia, he and his wife Gretta turn back in their hotel room. There Gabriel realises that his wife is crying and she tells him that she had a sad epiphany, which reminds her a young man who perhaps was her only true love, Michael, and she thinks he died for her. After had understand his wife, Gabriel has his epiphany. When Gretta falls asleep, he looks outside the window where the snow is falling. He thinks how his life has been insignificance, he asks himself if he has to die for can be forgotten ULYSSES: It represent a high point of Modernism. Joyce tells the story about of a day about Leopold Bloom. After he woke up, he walked around Dublin and he met most people along the way, one of these the young writer Stephen Dedalus. So after he came back home to his wife Molly. This story is inspired by the epic travels of Ulysses in Homer’s Odyssey Oddyssey:  Ulysses: the Greek soldier and hero  Telemachus: the son of Ulysses  Penelope: Ulysses’s wife Ulysses:  Leopold Bloom: a middle-aged Jewish advertising canvasser  Stephen Dedalus: young writer  Molly Bloom: the wife of Leopold This story is an interior monologue, a linguistic experimentation