Concetti Chiave
- James Joyce, born in Dublin in 1882, was a rebel who opposed the mainstream nationalist goals of his contemporaries like Yeats.
- Despite leaving Dublin at 22, he set all his works there to provide a realistic depiction of ordinary life in the city.
- Joyce rebelled against the Catholic Church, believing it negatively influenced the mindset of Dubliners.
- Almost blind, Joyce developed a keen sense of hearing, making the sound of words crucial in his literary works.
- As a Modernist, Joyce focused on the subjective perception of time, emphasizing characters' internal reactions over external events.
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Joyce
James Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882. He was a rebel among rebels. He was in contrast with his contemporaries such as Yeats whose main objective was the freeing of Ireland from the British Empire.
He left Dublin at the age of 22 and traveled to Paris, Rome, and finally settled in Trieste, where he met Italo Svevo.
Ordinary Dublin
Though he left Dublin at the age of 22, Joyce set all his works in Dublin. He wanted to give a realistic portrait of the life of the ordinary people.
The rebellion against the Church
Though he grew up in a Catholic world, he rebelled against the Catholic Church because he thought that Church could influence the narrow mind of the Dubliners
A poor eye sight
He was almost blind, so he better developed the sense of ear, and the sound of words was very important to him.
A subjective perception of time
Joyce was a Modernist writer. All the facts of his works are confused and explored from different points of view. He emphasizes the inner world of the characters. He analyses the impressions and thoughts that an external event has caused into the character’s mind. Time is perceived as subjective, depending on psychological change. He is interested in the characters’ reaction rather than the event per se.
The impersonality of the artist
Joyce’s task was to render life objectively in order to give back a true image of it.This led to the isolation and detachment of the artist from society.
His style developed from Realism. He uses the free direct speech, the epiphany, the interior monologue with two levels of narration, the extreme interior monologue, different POV
His language is characterized by a chain of words without punctuation or a grammatical order, by infinite puns.
Domande da interrogazione
- Quali sono le principali opere di James Joyce e quali difficoltà ha incontrato nella loro pubblicazione?
- In che modo Joyce rappresenta Dublino nei suoi lavori?
- Come la percezione soggettiva del tempo influisce sulla narrazione nei lavori di Joyce?
Le principali opere di James Joyce includono "Chamber Music", "Dubliners", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" e "Ulysses". Ha incontrato molte difficoltà finanziarie e problemi con gli editori che consideravano le sue opere oscene.
Anche se Joyce lasciò Dublino a 22 anni, ambientò tutte le sue opere nella città per offrire un ritratto realistico della vita delle persone comuni.
Joyce, come scrittore modernista, esplora i fatti da diversi punti di vista, enfatizzando il mondo interiore dei personaggi. Il tempo è percepito soggettivamente, dipendendo dai cambiamenti psicologici, e Joyce si concentra più sulle reazioni dei personaggi che sugli eventi stessi.
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