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“Poetry, even
when apparently
most fantastic, is
always a revolt
against artifice, a
revolt, in a sense,
against actuality”
James Joyce (1882-1941)James Joyce.
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• A rebel among rebels.
• Contrast with Yeats and the
other literary contemporaries
who tried to rediscover the Irish
Celtic identity.
The Joyces in Paris
1. Life
James Joyce
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1. Life
The Joyces in Paris
• He had two children, Giorgio
and Lucia, with his long-time
partner, Nora Barnacle, whom
he eventually married.
• He left Dublin at the age of
twenty-two and he settled for
some time in Paris, then in
Rome, Trieste, where he made
friends with Italo Svevo, and
Zurich.
James Joyce
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• The setting of most of his works Ireland, especially Dublin.
• He rebelled against the Catholic Church.
• All the facts explored from different points of view simultaneously.
James Joyce
2. The most important features of Joyce’s works
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James Joyce
• Greater importance given to the inner world of the characters.
• Time perceived as subjective.
• His task to render life objectively.
2. The most important features of Joyce’s works
Isolation and detachment of the artist from society
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Realism
Disciplined prose
Different points of view
Free-direct speech
Dubliners
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3. The evolution of Joyce’s style
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James Joyce
3. The evolution of Joyce’s style
Third-person narration
Minimal dialogue
Language and prose used to portray the protagonist’s state of mind
Free-direct speech
A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man
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James Joyce
3. The evolution of Joyce’s style
Interior monologue with two levels of narration
Extreme interior monologue
Ulysses
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• The Dublin represented by Joyce is not fixed and static, it is «the revolutionary montage of “Dublins” through a range of historical juxtapositions and varied styles».
• The 15 stories of the Dubliners, though set in the same city, are not united by their geography: each story has a singular location.
James Joyce
4. Dublin
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Dublin
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James Joyce
4. Dublin
• The evocation of his town in A Portrait is deeply influenced by Joyce’s prolonged temporal and spatial distance; Dublin is filtered through Stephen’s mind.
• In Ulysses, Dublin overwhelms the reader.
Dublin
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• Published in 1914 on the newspaper The Irish Homestead by Joyce with the pseudonym Stephen Dedalus.
James Joyce
5. Dubliners
• Dubliners are described as afflicted people.
• All the stories are set in Dublin “The city seemed to me the centre of paralysis”, Joyce stated.
Nassau Street, Dublin, early 20th century
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• The stories present human situations• They are arranged into 4 groups:
The Sisters
An Encounter
Araby
After the Race
The Boarding House
Eveline
Two Gallants
A Little Cloud
Clay
Counterparts
A Painful Case
Ivy Day in the Committee Room
A Mother
Grace
Mature life Public lifeAdolescenceChildhood
DUBLINParalysis / Escape
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6. Dubliners: structure and style
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• Naturalistic, concise, detailed descriptions.
• Naturalism combined with symbolism double meaning of details.
• Each story opens in medias res and is mostly told from the perspective of a character.
• Use of free-direct speech and free-direct thought direct presentation of the character’s thoughts.
James Joyce
7. Dubliners: narrative technique and themes
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James Joyce
7. Dubliners: narrative technique and themes
• Different linguistic registers the language suits the age, the social class and the role of the characters.
• Use of epiphany “the sudden spiritual manifestation” of an interior reality.
• Themes paralysis and escape.
• Absence of a didactic and moral aim because of the impersonality of the artist.
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Joyce’s aim to take the reader beyond the usual aspects of life through epiphany.
James Joyce
8. Dubliners: epiphany
It is the special moment in which a trivial gesture, an external object or a banal situation or an episode lead the character to a sudden
self-realisation about himself / herself or about the reality surrounding him / her.
Understanding the epiphany in each story is the key to the story itself
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• The main theme of Dubliners paralysis
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9. Dubliners: paralysis
Moral paralysis linked to religion,
politics and culture
Physical paralysis caused by external
forces
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9. Dubliners: paralysis
• The climax of the stories the coming to awareness by the characters of their own paralysis.
• Alternative to paralysis = escape which always leads to failure.
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Characters:
- A boy.
- The adult world: the boy’s uncle and aunt; Old Cotter; the dead priest, and his sisters, Eliza and Nannie.
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10. Dubliners: The Sisters
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Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin
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James Joyce
10. Dubliners: The Sisters
Setting the boy’s house; the priest’s house and a street next to the priest’s house.
Atmosphere suffocating, dark oppressive linked to paralysis/death; bright, airy linked to life.
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Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin
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Structure priest’s life described through dialogues and flashbacks.
Narration the first person narrator is combined with free direct speech.
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10. Dubliners: The Sisters
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Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin
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James Joyce
10. Dubliners: The Sisters
Language simple childish
and adult linguistic registers
Symbolism the priest’s
physical features = madness
decay paralysis death
Epiphany “it was the chalice
he broke”
excessive influence and intrusion
of the Church
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Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin
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• Characters:
- Eveline passive, influenced by her family’s mentality
- Her father a violent and strict man
- Frank a very kind, open-hearted and brave boy
• Antithesis between Eveline’s house and her new one in
Buenos Aires
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11. Dubliners: Eveline
Paralysis/Escape
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• The story opens in medias res “She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue”
• Third-person narrator but Eveline’s point of view.
• Subjective perception of time.
James Joyce
11. Dubliners: Eveline
Structure and style
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11. Dubliners: Eveline
• Epiphany a street organ which reminds Eveline of the promise she made to her dying mother.
• Symbolic words dust = decay, paralysis sea = action, escape
• Themes: paralysis and the failure to find a way out of it.
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Structure and style
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• The protagonists: Gabriel Conroy, an embodiment of Joyce himself, and Gretta, his wife.
• Epiphany the song The Lass of Aughrim, reminds Gretta of a young man, Michael Furey, who died for her when he was seventeen years old. Gabriel understands he is deader than Michael Furey in Gretta’s mind.
• Symbols the snow, Gabriel’s journey to the west.
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12. Dubliners: The Dead
Angelica Huston in John Huston’s The Dead (1987)
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