Riassunto di inglese su James Joyce e Virginia Woolf, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica Riassunto di inglese su James Joyce e Virginia Woolf e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! THE MODERN NOVEL JAMES JOYCE 1882-1941 LIFE • He was born in Dublin in 1882 and he was educated at Jesuit schools and in the University College in Dublin where he studied French, Italian and German • He started to prefer the European culture than the Irish • He moved to Paris but return when his mother fell ill in 1903, and 1904 he fell in love with Nora Barnacle that was working in a hotel • Then they moved to Italy in Trieste, where began to teach at Berlitz school and he became teacher of Italo Svevo • He liked Trieste for his port, where he could met foreigners • Joyce and Nora had two children: Giorgio and Lucia and they married in 1931 • He had some financial problems and in 1914 he moved to Zurich because he was a pacifist • He wrote A portrait of the artist as a young man and Dubliners so he became a writer • After an anonymous donation he wrote Ulysses in Paris • With the arrive of Hitler he moved in Switzerland where he Died in 1941 STYLE • Joyce went into voluntary exile at the age of 22 and he decided to set all his story in Dublin where he describe the life of normal people doing normal things • He succeeded in the representation of man’s mental, emotions fusing with cultural heritage and modern civilisation • He thought that he must describe the reality and not his point of view • In the Dubliners Joyce describe the character through the use of free direct speech, the epiphany, the interior monologue which he describe al the things that the character think EPIPHANY • The description inch story is realistic and extremely concise, with an abundance of external details, even the most unpleasant and depressing ones • The use of realism is mixt with simbolysm • In fact the epiphany is the sudden spiritual manifestation caused by a trivial gesture, that can be oral or visual • This lead a self realization about himself or about the reality surrounding • This Epiphanies moments are understand by the character that experiences them and by the reader about the Society • Dubliners can be seen as a sequence of multiple epiphanies offer a revelation of the City in its intellectual moral and spiritual paralysis • The paralysis is moral and physical, the people accept this condition because they didn’t understand it • For this reason Dubliners want to be the revelation that Wake up the people • He didn’t find a solution to exit by the paralysis, the so he escaped with a consequent failure • The omniscient narrator and the singol point of view is rejected, so he use free direct speech, free direct thought, so the reader acquire direct knowledge of the the character by themselves • The register linguistic is varied, that depends from the person in the story and his role in the society DUBLINERS • The effects of religious, political, cultural and economic forces the afflict the people of Dublin • 15 short stories without obvious action and with moral, social and spiritual revelation • The stories are arramged in four groups: ❖ The childhood ❖ The adolescence ❖ The mature life ❖ The public life • The last story is the Dead, the masterpiece of Joyce, there are more themes, so this is the climax and the summary THE DEAD VIRGINIA WOOLF 1882-1941 LIFE • She was born in 1882 • Her father was a Victorian man of letters, so she was strongly educated • She studied at home, but he followed a course in the Cornwall where she followed in love of the sea • The water represented for her the harmonious and feminine, the resolution of problems in the death • The death of the mother in 1895 affected her life, and she started revolt against the oppression of his father • With the death of the father in 1904 she became free • She moved to Bloomsbury and with her sister she became part of Bloomsbury group • In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf • She published The Voyage Out, her first novel but then she try to suicide • In 1925 published To the Lighthouse and then Orlando • The second world war increased her fear so she drowned herself in the River Ouse at 59 STYLE • She wanted to give voice to our memories and feelings • The omniscient narrator disappeared and the point of view shifted inside the charcters mind through flashback, momentary impressions presented as a continuous flux MRS DALLOWAY