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    James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet. He emigrated from Ireland to continental Europe in 1904. One of his most famous works is Dubliners, published in 1914, which provides short stories that aim to capture the essence of Dublin and its inhabitants. Though he faced censorship issues due to the stories depicting real Irish life, Joyce believed his work provided an important perspective on Irish culture and society. His short story "The Dead" uses narrative techniques like an omniscient third-person narrator and symbols to depict an 'epiphany' experienced by one of the characters.

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    James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet. He emigrated from Ireland to continental Europe in 1904. One of his most famous works is Dubliners, published in 1914, which provides short stories that aim to capture the essence of Dublin and its inhabitants. Though he faced censorship issues due to the stories depicting real Irish life, Joyce believed his work provided an important perspective on Irish culture and society. His short story "The Dead" uses narrative techniques like an omniscient third-person narrator and symbols to depict an 'epiphany' experienced by one of the characters.

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    James Joyce (1882-1941)

    James Joyce (1882-1941)


    Joyce and Ireland

    Emigrated to continental Europe in 1904

    "For myself, I always write about Dublin,


    because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I
    can get to the heart of all the cities of the
    world. In the particular is contained the
    universal."
    NON SERVIAM (“I will not serve”)
    “My mind rejects the whole present social order and
    Christianity—home, the recognised virtues, classes
    of life and religious doctrines. ... Six years ago I left
    the Catholic church, hating it most fervently. ... Now
    I make open war upon it by what I write and say
    and do.” (James Joyce)

    “I will no longer serve that in which I no longer


    believe, whether it call itself my home, my
    fatherland, or my church.” (Stephen Dedalus)
    Dubliners, 1914

    “Narrating the nation”

    Written when Irish (cultural) nationalism was at


    its peak
    Joyce to his publisher, faced with censorship:

    • “I seriously believe that you will retard the


    course of civilization in Ireland by preventing
    the Irish people from having one good look in
    my nicely polished looking-glass”

    • Dubliners as “a chapter of the moral history of


    my country”
    “Dear, dirty, Dublin”

    “It is not my fault that the odour of ashpits and


    old weeds and offal hangs around my stories.”

    “I am nauseated by their [nationalist] lying drivel


    about pure men and pure women and
    spiritual love forever: blatant lying in the face
    of truth.”
    “The Dead”
    The feast of Epiphany, January 6th
    NARRATIVE STYLE
    How does Joyce choose to narrate this story,
    and why?

    • The story?
    • Narrative voice?
    • Narrative strategies and techniques?
    • Epiphany?
    • Symbols?
    EPIPHANY
    • “a moment of insight”, or “a point where
    hitherto disparate observations... rearrange
    themselves .... shattering long held ideas
    about one’s self and surroundings”

    • “rearrangement of a fantasized reality into an


    actual one”
    “The Lass of Aughrim”
    Jon Huston, “The Dead”, 1987

    https://
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkos62UPwVk
    Listen to Mary Jane “playing her Academy piece,
    full of runs and difficult passages”
    (19:30:30)

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