james joyce
TRANSCRIPT
He was in love with words. He was great at employing
the stream of consciousness technique He wanted to express the stream of consciousness
happening in our minds with no time mediation or
punctuation
He was an innovator with
languageInterior monologue
Free direct and indirect speech Lack of punctuation
Stream of consciousness technique
Dubliners
• It is a collection of 15 stories corresponding to different stages of human life
• He moved within the realm of the realistic tradition but soon he moved away towards a more allusive symbolic narration
Dubliners
• Paralysis is the central motif connecting all different characters: it's a spiritual one.
• Strictly connected to paralysis there is escape: all characters want to leave, to change but they fail, because they are unable to break the chains which tie them to family, past, tradition
Dubliners
• Only when they experience epiphany they acquire awareness of their paralysis and their impossibility of finding a way out
• So epiphany is a sort of characters' sudden realization triggered by everyday common objects
Ulysses
• It is centered on a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly and his friend Stephen Dedalus: all names have a symbolic meaning, both religious and classical references.
• The book describes the wanderings of the main protagonist into his home town, Dublin, echoing the ones of the classical Ulysses in twenty years.
• Leopold is a common anti-hero fighting against a various heterogeneous outer world
• Stephen Dedalus represents an artist, he is the protagonist of another novel written by Joyce, The portrait of the artist as a young man
• He represents Telemachus, the son of Ulysses
• Molly's monologue closing the book is really famous with 'yes' appealing to a sexual intercourse but also acceptance in general.
• She represents a modern Penelope but she is not faithful as the classical character