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James Joyce
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20th century Irish expatriate
• James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish expatriate author of the 20th century.
• He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses (1922) and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake (1939), as well as the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).
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• is a photograph of James Joyce taken by fellow UCD student Constantine P. Curran in the summer of 1904.
• When asked later what he was thinking at the time, Joyce replied,
• “I was wondering would he lend me five shillings” (in Ellmann).
Despite his family’s economic situation, however, Joyce did manage to secure a fine education.
• From 1888 to 1891, he attended the prestigious Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare, and,
• from 1893 to 1898,
• he attended the reputable Belvedere College, a Catholic day school in Dublin. Joyce graduated from University College, Dublin, in 1902.
• Joyce’s native city is Dublin, the city which provides the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction.
• In particular, his tempestuous early relationship with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected through a similar inner conflict in his recurrent alter ego Stephen Dedalus.
• As the result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his self-imposed exile and influence throughout Europe, notably in Paris,
• Joyce became paradoxically one of the most cosmopolitan yet one of the most regionally-focused of all the English language writers of his time.
• Joyce remained in Dublin for some time longer, drinking heavily. After one of his alcoholic binges, he got into a fight over a misunderstanding with a man in St. Stephen's Green;
• he was picked up and dusted off by a minor acquaintance of his father, Alfred H. Hunter, who brought him into his home to tend to his injuries.
• Hunter was rumored to be Jewish and to have an unfaithful wife, and would serve as one of the models for Leopold Bloom, the main protagonist of Ulysses.
• He took up with medical student Oliver St John Gogarty, who formed the basis for the character Buck Mulligan in Ulysses.
• After staying in Gogarty's Martello Tower for 6 nights he left in the middle of the night following an altercation which involved Gogarty shooting a pistol at some pans hanging directly over Joyce's bed.
• He walked all the way back to Dublin to stay with relatives for the night, and sent a friend to the tower the next day to pack his possessions into his trunk. Shortly thereafter, he eloped to the continent with Nora.
Ulysses (novel)
• considered one of • the most important works• of• Modernist literature.
More study
• CHARACTER ANALYSES • http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Ulysses-About-the-Author.id-153,pageNum-1.html
• Study Help
• Essay and Review Questions • http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Ulysses-Study-Help-Essay-and-Review-Questions.id-153,pageNum-37.html
• Kopper, Edward A. CliffsNotes on Ulysses. 25 Dec 2008<http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-153.html>.
1967 Movie adaptation
Modernist Literature
• Modernist literature is the literary form of Modernism and especially High modernism. It should not be confused with modern literature, which is the history of the modern novel and modern poetry together.
• Modernism as a literary movement reached its height in Europe between 1910 and 1920. Modernist literature addressed aesthetic problems similar to those examined in non-literary forms of contemporaneous Modernist art, such as Modernist painting.
• Gertrude Stein's abstract writings, for example, have often been compared to the fragmentary and multi-perspectival Cubism of her friend Pablo Picasso.
• Cubism was a 20th century
• avant-garde art movement,
• pioneered by
• Pablo Picasso
• and
• Georges Braque,
• that revolutionized
• European painting
• and
• sculpture,
• And
• inspired
• related
• movements
• in music and
• literature.
thematic concerns
• The general thematic concerns of • Modernist literature are well-summarized by
the sociologist Georg Simmel:
• "The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life."
Gertrude Stein
• Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature.
Virginia Woolf
• Virginia Woolf • hails • Joyce• as an example • of a • revolutionary sort• of fiction• that does away• with• outmoded • conventions.
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