Transcript James Joyce (1882-1941)

James Joyce (1882-1941)
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born in Dublin to an
impoverished family
educated by the Jesuits
left Ireland for medical
school in Paris at 21
returned to the continent in
1904 with Nora Barnacle
spent most of his life on the
continent (Paris, Italy,
Switzerland) in dire poverty
Biographical video
Important Works
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Dubliners (1914)
Exiles (1914)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Ulysses (1922): considered by some the greatest
novel ever written
Finnegan’s Wake (1939)
Ireland Story
Dubliners (1907, pub. 1914)
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Stories chronicle stages
of life:
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childhood
adolescence
maturity
society as a whole
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Joyce wrote to his publisher: “My intention was to write
a chapter of the moral history of my country and I
chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to
me the centre of paralysis.”
He later stated: “in composing my chapter of moral
history in exactly the way I have composed it I have
taken the first step towards the spiritual liberation of
my country… I seriously believe that you will retard the
course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish
people from having one good look at themselves in my
nicely polished looking-glass.”
Paralysis:
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a living death, or a succession of deaths,
emotional psychological, or spiritual
scenes of darkness, cold night, winter and
blinding
Epiphany:
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a spiritual an intellectual illumination of the
nature of a thing
to the artistic insights and means by which such
a revelation is achieved
a sudden revelation of spiritual or moral
meaning, usually as to the essential being of a
person or thing
Paralysis and epiphanies in the
stories:
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Araby
Evelyn
Counterparts
The Dead
Araby
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opening
the narrator/protagonist
Mangan’s sister– associations
religious references
figures of authority
the English
illusion versus reality
ending?
meaning of title?
Evelyn
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opening scene
the past
her father
her mother
images of light and darkness
ending?
Counterparts
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the opening
Mr. Alleyne vs. “the man”
relationship between anger and thirst
effects of work on the individual
coins
the public houses
the English (woman, Weathers)
ending?
title?
The Dead
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Miss Kate, Miss Julia, Mary Jane
Gabriel
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scene with Lily
attitude towards other guests
Miss Ivors
the speech and the past
Freddy Malins
Gretta: what does she represent?
Gabriel vs. Michael Furey
Epiphanies -- mirror
Symbolism
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Johnny, the horse
Final scene
the snow
the title?