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    James Joyce was born in 1882 in Dublin to a middle-class family that later faced financial difficulties. He studied modern languages at university, which influenced his modernist works set in Dublin. Though he wrote about Dublin, Joyce felt more European than Irish and lived in exile in London and Europe. In his collection Dubliners, paralysis represents social or emotional stagnation rather than physical paralysis. At the time, Ireland was under British rule and Joyce believed Irish culture had been replaced by British culture, preventing Ireland's embrace of modernism. The Irish Literary Revival sought to reclaim Irish culture but Joyce saw it as too focused on the past and Catholicism.

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    James Joyce was born in 1882 in Dublin to a middle-class family that later faced financial difficulties. He studied modern languages at university, which influenced his modernist works set in Dublin. Though he wrote about Dublin, Joyce felt more European than Irish and lived in exile in London and Europe. In his collection Dubliners, paralysis represents social or emotional stagnation rather than physical paralysis. At the time, Ireland was under British rule and Joyce believed Irish culture had been replaced by British culture, preventing Ireland's embrace of modernism. The Irish Literary Revival sought to reclaim Irish culture but Joyce saw it as too focused on the past and Catholicism.

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    UK & IRELAND LITERATURE

    FIRST SEMESTER 2018


    PROFESOR: LUZ MAR
    luzmar@uniovi.es

    November 12th, 2018

    JAMES JOYCE
    He was born on February 2nd, 1882 in (Rathgar) Dublin. In a upper-middle class neighbour, but
    his family had to move to less fashionable neighbours because his father was a person that
    lived above his possibilities. He studied Modern languages (like me!!!!) which is really important
    in modernism and can be seen on his works.

    All of his major works are located in Dublin. But he went into an artistic exile to London and
    other European countries, so he ended up feeling more european than irish.

    Paralysis: In dubliners is metaphorical, more like a social or emotional paralysis, except one of
    the characters in one of his stories that is actually physically paralyzed.

    Ireland was a British colony at the time, which left the irish culture out of the picture and
    substituted by the british culture. And because of that joyce thought that ireland was living on
    the past and wasn’t able to get into modernism. The Irish literary revival is a literary movement
    that tries to get back the irish culture that hasn’t been contaminated with british culture. And the
    main representatives of this celtic revival was W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. But joyce thought
    that they were too anchored on the past, and he was a modernist so he was looking forward.
    Also he thought that this movement was too focused on catholicism, and he was disenchanted
    by the religion.

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