Homework due on 11th January
As you already know James Joyce is a modernist writer famous for Ulysses, the complex work in which he brought to perfection the interior monologue and which is considered one of the most important book of the 20th century. Let's know him better!
James Joyce' s biography
1) Watch the video and complete the information about Joyce's biography from your textbook (page 463) by answering the questions below:
- Which family did James come from?
- Did he have any siblings?
- Why was James forced to leave the boarding school he was attending?
- What happened to Joyce at the age of 16?
- In which subjects did he graduate?
- Which famous American writers did Joyce meet in Paris?
- Take notes on James Joyce's books
- Which diseases was Joyce affected with as he turned 50?
2) James Joyce spent a significant part of his life in Trieste. While browsing the following website and watching the video take notes about his stay in the Adriatic town:
http://www.museojoycetrieste.it/james-joyce-a-trieste/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K5os04iye8
• Lenght of the stay:
• People he met:
• Jobs he did:
• Works he wrote:
• Influences:
• Other significant facts:
3) For music lovers.
Browse the website and write in no more than 10 lines what is the role played by music in Joyce's life and works.
http://james-joyce-music.com/joyceandmusic.html
Introduction to "Dubliners"
Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories forming a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
Between 1905, when Joyce first sent a manuscript to a publisher, and 1914, when the book was finally published, Joyce submitted the book 18 times to a total of 15 publishers. The book's publishing history is a harrowing tale of persistence in the face of frustration. The London house of Grant Richards agreed to publish it in 1905. The following is an extract from a letter to the editor Grant Richards dated 5th May 1906. Joyce clarifies his aims, the strucuture of the work and gives us a key for his interpretation.
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because the city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The stories are arranged in this order. I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness and with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter in the presentment, still more to deform, whatever he had seen or heard.
Read the introduction to Dubliners from your textbook on page 464 and browse the following websites. Write down an exaustive explanation of the following features of the collection in no more than 10 lines for each term:
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dubliners/about-dubliners
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dubliners/critical-essays/themes-in-dubliners
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dubliners/themes.html
- Dublin:
- Paralysis:
- Epiphany:
- Escape:
- Corruption:
- Death:
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