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JAMES JOYCE, DUBLINERS - Coggle Diagram
JAMES JOYCE
life
Origin: Dublin (1882), Catholic, middle class
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Exile (1904) Trieste: taught English, friend with Italo Svevo, Zurich and Paris: lived there during WWS
Financial problems, poor eyesight and censorship
Death: Zurich (1941)
Modernist writer, artist's task: to render life objectively
narrative technique
No omniscent narrator but simultaneous point of view, focus on impressions and thoughts caused by outer events
structure
Starts in medias res, portrait of characters based on introspection, not description--> subjective time
style evolution: from realism (Dubliners) to interior monologue and use of free direct speech up to extreme interior monologue (stream of consciousness)
DUBLINERS
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themes
Paralysis: both physical and moral caused by religion, politics and culture---> failure to escape paralysis: characters are unable to cut bonds with their world
Epiphany= sudden spiritual revelation caused by a trivial gesture, object or banal situation. It has the function to drive the story (instead of plot)
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techniques
free indirect speech (thoughts presented directly) and free direct speech
language: varied register according to social class and age of characters
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