James+Joyce+(1882-1941)

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James Joyce 1882-1941) (1882-1941)Teaching objectives: knowing Joyce’ Joyce’s life experience, literary career, works, views and styles

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Joyce at age six, 1888

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Teaching contents:1.Life and literary career 2. Major works 3. Araby 3.1 The story 3.2 The theme 4. Ulysses 5. Stream of consciousness

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1.Life and literary careerJames Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist, was born in Dublin, (1882on February 2, 1882, as the son of John Stanislaus Joyce, an impoverished gentleman, who had failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of professions, including politics and tax collecting. Joyce's mother, Mary Jane Murray, was ten years younger than her husband. She was an accomplished pianist, whose life was dominated by the Roman Catholic Church. In spite of their poverty, the family struggled to maintain a solid middle-class facade. middleFrom the age of six Joyce, was educated by Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College , at Clane, and then at Belvedere College in Dublin (1893-97). In 1898 he entered the (1893University College, Dublin . Joyce's first publication was an essay on Ibsen's play When We Dead Awaken. It appeared in the Fortnightly Review in 1900. At this time he also began writing lyric poems.

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1.Life and literary careerAfter graduation in 1902 the twenty-year-old twenty-yearJoyce went to Paris, where he worked as a journalist, teacher and in other occupations under difficult financial conditions. He spent a year in France, returning when a telegram arrived saying his mother was dying. Not long after her death, Joyce was traveling again. He left Dublin in 1904 with Nora Barnacle, a chambermaid who he married in 1931. Joyce published Dubliners in 1914, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in 1916, a play Exiles in 1918 and Ulysses in 1922. In 1907 Joyce had published a collection of poems, Chamber Music.

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At the outset of the First World War, Joyce moved with his family to Zurich. In Zurich Joyce started to develop the early chapters of Ulysses, which was first published in France because of censorship troubles in the Great Britain and the United States, where the book became legally available only in 1933. In March 1923 Joyce started in Paris his second major work, Finnegans Wake, suffering at the same time chronic eye troubles caused by glaucoma(青光 glaucoma(青光 眼). The first segment of the novel appeared in Ford Madox Ford's transatlantic review in April 1924, as part of what Joyce called Work in Progress. The final version was published in 1939. Some critics considered the work a masterpiece, though many readers found it incomprehensible. After the fall of France in WWII, Joyce returned to Zurich, where he died on January 13, 1941, still disappointed with the reception of

Finnegans Wake.

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Bust of James Joyce in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin

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Tribute to James Joyce in Trieste (Italy) on the Ponterosso bridge.

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James-JoyceJames-Joyce-Plateau fountain at Platzspitz park in Zürich (Switzerland) Zü

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Tombston

e over the gravesite of James, Nora and Giorgio Joyce, Fluntern, Zürich Zü

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2. Major works2.1 Fiction:

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1916 Ulysses 1922 Finnegans Wake, 19392.2 Plays:

Exiles Dubliners (After the Race An Encounter Araby The Boarding House Clay2.3 Short Stories:

Counterparts The Dead Eveline Grace Ivy Day in the Committee Room A Little Cloud A Mother A Painful Case The Sisters Two Gallants )2.4 Poetry:

Chamber Music

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3. Araby3.1 The storyUnder the influence of new changes in his body, the young boy of Araby was drawn towards the sister of his friend who lived in his neighbors. Her figure, the features of which were once highlighted by the same light when he was fortunate enough to be addressed by her, bewitched him. He followed her but had no heart to speak to her because he was shy by nature. Though he loved her with all the passion and innocence of adolescence he never had courage to tell her of his feelings, nor he ever appear to be aware of them. This state is what can be called "subjective".

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On the other occasion when she talked to him he promised that he would bring something for her from the exotic shopping centre , known as Araby. He had a small amount of money which was gifted to him by his uncle. Some of it had been spent on the railway and entrance fee. The remained was not sufficient to buy anything worthwhile. To top it he had reached there quite late in the evening. Nearly all stalls had closed and only one which was still open displayed wares which were beyond his pocket. He was rudely shocked and came face to face with reality. He could love with all his being but he could not buy a gift for his beloved. He was dependant on others who would not understand his passion.