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James Joyce

James Joyce. Born in a suburb of Dublin , on February 2nd 1882 In 1888 Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit school 1893 Belvedere College, a Jesuit school 1898 University College Dublin 1902 Degree in Foreign Languages. James Joyce.

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James Joyce

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  1. James Joyce • Born in a suburbof Dublin, on February 2nd 1882 • In 1888 Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuitschool • 1893 Belvedere College, a Jesuitschool • 1898 University College Dublin • 1902 Degree in ForeignLanguages

  2. James Joyce • 1904: met Nora Barnacle (theymarried in 1931). • 1904-1915: theylived in Trieste (fromJuly 1906 to March 1907 in Rome). Joyce contributedto “Il Piccolo della Sera” and met Italo Svevo • 1912 – Last journeytoDublin. Joyce nevervisitedIrelandagain • 1913 – CorrespondencewithEzraPound • 1914 – Joyce metEzraPound • 1915 – Joyce movedto Zurich • 1920 – Joyce movedtoParis. Herehemet Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, F.S. Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein • 1940 – in Zurich again • 1941 – Joyce dies in Zurich in 1941

  3. James Joyce: literary career • 1900: “Ibsen’s New Drama”, FortnightlyReview • 1900-1902: short poemslatercollected in ChamberMusicand prose piecescalled “epiphanies”(W.B. Yeats) • 1904: A Portraitof the Artist(essay), thenturnedinto the novel • 1904: “The Sisters”, Irish Homestead • 1904-5 Stephen Hero(ch. 14-25) • 1914- 1915: Portraitof the Artistas a Young Man serialized in “The Egoist” • 1914: Dubliners • 1918: Exiles • 2 February 1922: Ulysses, published in Parisby Shakespeare & Co. • 1923: startswritingFinnegansWake • 1934: Ulyssespublished in the USA • 1936: Ulyssespublished in the UK • 1939: FinnegansWakepublished in the UK and the USA

  4. Dubliners: historical background • 1801: ActofUnion: Irelandbecame part of the extendedUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, ruledby a unitedparliament at Westminster in London • 19th and 20th centuries: rise ofmodern Irish nationalism • Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891): Irish Parliamentary Party. Campaignfor Home Rule: autonomyofIrelandwithin the union

  5. Dubliners: historicalbackgound • The ActofUnion 1801: BeginningofDublin’s decline in bothpolitical and economicterms (highestdeath rate in the country) • “The lackofdynamismfrom the rural Irish economy and the failureofDublinbusinessestomanufacture, and, in some cases, eventodistribute the manufacturedgoodswhichruralIrelandneeded, plus the apparentstagnationof the port in the thirdquarterof the nineteenthcenturyallmeantthatDublinfailedtoprovideadequateemploymenteitherfor the indigenuouspopulation or evenfor a smallproportionof the surplus populationsofruralIreland” Mary Daly, Dublin, The Deposed Capital: A Social and EconomicHistory 1860-1914, 1984 • Dubliners: lower middle class, petit-bourgeois world ofshopkeepers and tradesmen, functionariesofonekind or another, clerks, bankofficials, salesmen.

  6. Dubliners: historical background • 1914: Home Rule Bill passed (with the exclusionof the sixcountiesof Ulster) butsuspendedfor the durationof WW1 • 1916: EasterRising • 1920: GovernmentofIrelandAct • 1922: Irish Free State • 1937: New Constitution • 1949: Republic ofIreland

  7. Dubliners • “I amwriting a seriesofepicleti - ten - for a paper. I have written one. I call the series Dubliners to betray the soul of that hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city.” (J. Joyce, LettertoCurranofearly 1904)

  8. Dubliners • 1904: Joyce publishes “The Sisters”, “Eveline” and “After the Race” in The Irish Homestead • 1904-6: Joyce wroteall the otherstoriesexceptfor “The Dead” (1907) • Joyce submitted the volume forpublicationto Grant Richards in 1905 and 1907, and thentoMaunsel & Co., butitwasrejected. Itwasfinallypublishedby Grant Richards in 1914

  9. Dubliners • “Itisnotmy fault that the odourofashpits and oldweeds and offalhangs round mystories. I seriouslybelievethatyouwillretard the courseofcivilization in Irelandbypreventing the Irish people fromhavingonegood look at themselves in mynicelypolishedlooking-glass” James Joyce, Letterto Grant Richards, 23 June 1906 • “Myintentionwastowrite a chapterof the moralhistoryofmycountry and I choseDublinfor the scene becausethat city seemedto me the centreofparalysis. I havetriedtopresentitto the indifferent public under fouraspects: childhood, adolescence, maturityand public life. The stories are arranged in thisorder. I have written it for the most part in the style of scrupulous meanness and with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter it in the presentment, still more to deform, whatever he has seen or heard” James Joyce, Letterto Grant Richards, 5 May 1906

  10. Dubliners • Childhood: “The Sisters”, “An Encounter”, “Araby” • Adolescence: “After the Race”, “The Boarding House”, “Eveline”, “TwoGallants” • Maturity: “A Little Cloud”, “Clay”, Counterparts”, “A Painful Case” • Public Life: “IvyDay in the CommiteeRoom”, “A Mother”, “Grace” • “The Dead”

  11. “The Sisters” • Basic situation derived from “The Old Watchman”, by Berkeley Campbell, a typical Irish Homestead story • Gnomon: the remainder of a parallelogramafterremovalof a similarparallelogramcontainingoneofitscorners. The stylusof a sundialthatthrows the shadowwhichindicates the hoursof the day • Simony: the selling or giving in exchangeof a temporalthingfor a spiritual thing (i.e. buyingof a blessing, purchaseofecclesiasticalfavour, or ofpardons). Itoriginatesfrom Simon Magus in the ActsofApostleswhosoughttogain spiritual powersbypayment

  12. Epiphany • “Byanepiphanyhemeantsudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarityofspeech or gesture or in a memorablephaseof the mind itself”, James Joyce, Stephen Hero

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