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AP English Literature & Composition

AP English Literature & Composition. October 24, 2007 “Greenleaf” groups (20 min prep, present) Background on James Joyce “Araby” discussion. Homework. Check schedule for thesis statements/writing commitments Review for short story unit test 11/1 Short Story due dates 10/26

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AP English Literature & Composition

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  1. AP English Literature & Composition October 24, 2007 “Greenleaf” groups (20 min prep, present) Background on James Joyce “Araby” discussion

  2. Homework • Check schedule for thesis statements/writing commitments • Review for short story unit test 11/1 • Short Story due dates 10/26 • Continue working toward portfolio deadlines • Deadline has been postponed to November 29

  3. “Greenleaf” group analysis • Groups: • Mrs. May vs. Mrs. Greenleaf (foil character relationship) • Wesley & Scofield vs. OT & ET (foil character relationships – BTW, Scofield also scoffs at the idea of working in the fields) • Dramatic irony regarding Mr. Greenleaf’s character • Dramatic irony regarding Mrs. May’s character • Bull as a multiple symbol • Function of dreams • Assignment: • Collect textual examples relating to your group’s topic from throughout the story. • Examine the evidence for patterns within itself. • Examine the evidence as it relates to the story as a whole (theme). • Develop an analytical thesis statement describing the role this element plays in creating meaning related to the story’s theme. • Prepare to present your findings and defend your thesis statement to the class (using your textual examples as evidence and explaining how examining them led to your thesis).

  4. James Joyce (1882-1941) • Born in Dublin • Father: failed businessman, tried politics and many pursuits to maintain façade of being a gentleman • Mother: pianist and devout Catholic • Jesuit education • Began writing lyric poetry at the University College, Dublin • Worked as journalist, teacher, movie theatre owner, etc. • Traveled extensively, living in Paris and Zurich

  5. Joyce’s style • Experimental use of language • Stream of consciousness • Interior monologue • Complex network of symbolic parallels from mythology, history, and literature • Heavy use of allusions (often a controlling allusion for a piece)

  6. Major Works • Dubliners (1914): short story collection about everyday people • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916): autobiographical novel following Stephen Dedalus’s maturation, education, and decision to leave Ireland for Paris to become a writer • Ulysses (1922): sequel to Portrait following three characters (including Stephen D.) and using the structure of The Odyssey • Finnegan’s Wake (1939): explores the fragmentary lives of people, loosely based on Freud’s dream psychology, Bruno’s theory of complimentary opposites, and Giambattista Vico’s theory of cyclical history

  7. "The only demand I make of my reader," Joyce once told an interviewer, "is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works." • “I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.”--About Ulysses • I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, hasn't he?--Nora Joyce (wife)

  8. Works Referenced • http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/ • http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jjoyce.htm • http://www.themodernword.com/Joyce/joyce_quotes.html

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