James Joyce, whose full name was James Augustine Aloysuis Joyce, known as one of the greatest Irish literature writers in the 20th century(FamousAuthors). Born in Dublin, Ireland, February 2, 1882 into a middle class family. Joyce was one of ten surviving children. John Stanislaus Joyce was James father. A talented singer, just about one of the best in Ireland during his time. Although he had an extraordinary talent, he could not provide a steady household for the family. After being laid off from a tax collector job he became an alcoholic and addicted to drugs. His father could not keep a steady job. His habit to spend money lead the family downhill. This caused the family to move from home to home. Joyce mother, Mary Jane Murray was an phenomenal pianist. Even though this was not enough to keep their family of twelve on their feet in the middle class area. Her life revolved around the catholic church. During Joyce's life, he suffered from chronic eye dysfunctions and had glaucoma. Through his life span he had over 23 eye surgeries to try and help him with his sight. All of which barely close to nothing did anything to help him from stop suffering. This did not stop Joyce from conquering his goals, and becoming one of the most talked about literature writers in the 21st century. From an extremely young age most knew Joyce had a gift for writing and a passion for literature. Joyce also taught himself Italian and Norwegian, and knew seventeen languages in total. His intelligence was exceeding through such a very young age. During this time Joyce was greatly educated by Jesuits. Because his parents never wanting him to end up like them, he was pushed to follow his passion in writing. Joyce attended school... ... middle of paper ... ...believe it had no plot, no content, and was without meaning. On the other hand if this work of art was not as important as critics said it was, many would have not heard nor talked about this piece. Critics believed Joyce's work was hard and filled with gibberish, but people who have read and understood all of his stories would disagree. Joyce intended on teaching people who wanted to be taught. His writing has taught literature artist how to open their minds for new ideas to improve their work and pull more people in. Works Cited egs.edu FamousAuthors.org http://www.online-literature http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/338798.Ulyssese.com/james_joyce/ http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/authors/Joyce.html http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004656/ http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/james-joyce-ten-fascinating-facts-about-the-legendary-irish-author-157461075-237508711.html
Born in March of 1916 as Jacob (Jack) Ezra Katz, he was the third child to Benjamin and Augusta Katz. His parents were both Polish immigrants of Jewish descent and they raised him in East New York, the predominantly Jewish section of Brooklyn. As immigrants they were plagued with financial difficulties and this was further aggravated when they struggled through the Depression. Despite all of these hardships, Keats had already begun to showcase his artistic abilities. At the age of eight he was hired to paint the sign of a local store. Naturally, his father was quite proud of him when he earned twenty-five cents for his work and hoped that this might endeavor might lead to a steady career as a sign pa¬inter. Unfortunately for him, Keats was smitten with Fine Arts and won his first award in Junior High School: a medal for ...
"Eveline" is the story of a young teenager facing a dilemma where she has to choose between living with her father or escaping with Frank, a sailor which she has been courting for some time. The story is one of fifteen stories written by James Joyce in a collection called "Dubliners". These stories follow a certain pattern that Joyce uses to express his ideas: "Joyce's focus in Dubliners is almost exclusively on the middle-class Catholics known to himself and his family"(the Gale Group). Joyce's early life, family background, and his catholic background appear in the way he writes these stories. "Where Joyce usually relates his stories to events in his life, there are some stories which are actually events that took place in his life" (Joyce, Stanislaus). James Joyce in his letter to Grant Richard writes:
...just as powerful. Through description, he creates an image that can never be removed from the internal visualization of the mind’s eye and the burst of the Roman candle becomes just as provocative as a woman’s bare breast flashing through a projector onto a screen. Just as there are levels of a consubstantial trinity within Ulysses, there is also a level of a consubstantial trinity within the world of filmmaking. The protean relationship in which Joyce allows the reader to transform into the character and author is not unlike the relationship between the actor, cinematographer (filmmaker), and audience. The use of this cinematic technique within the chapter acts as a commentary on the symbiosis between writer and reader and allows the reader to heuristically detach from the monocular reading of the book and adopt a more binocular vision of the concepts in the work.
Fairhall, James. James Joyce and the Question of History. Cambridge University Press. New York, New York: 1993.
James Larkin was born on 21 January 1876 in Liverpool to Irish immigrant parents. Larkin had a hard life and lost his father at the age of 14. Jim married his wife Elizabeth Brown in 1903 and the pair had two children named James and Dennis. Over the years in his menial jobs, his interest in socialism became a career path and he even joined the Independent Labour Party. In 1905 he was one of the few foremen who joined the Liverpool dockers strike and lost his employment as a result. This however opened up doors for him the world of trade unionism. Not too long after the events in Liverpool, Larkin landed a permanent position with the National Union of Dock Labourers and went on to organize workers across the UK in the fight for workers rights.
He has grown up in the backwash of a dying city and has developed into an individual sensitive to the fact that his town’s vivacity has receded, leaving the faintest echoes of romance, a residue of empty piety, and symbolic memories of an active concern for God and mankind that no longer exists. Although the young boy cannot fully comprehend it intellectually, he feels that his surroundings have become malformed and ostentatious. He is at first as blind as his surroundings, but Joyce prepares us for his eventual perceptive awakening by mitigating his carelessness with an unconscious rejection of the spiritual stagnation of his community. Upon hitting Araby, the boy realizes that he has placed all his love and hope in a world that does not exist outside of his imagination. He feels angry and betrayed and comes to realize his self-deception, describing himself as “a creature driven and derided by vanity”, a vanity all his own (Joyce). This, inherently, represents the archetypal Joycean epiphany, a small but definitive moment after which life is never quite the same. This epiphany, in which the boy lives a dream in spite of the disagreeable and the material, is brought to its inevitable conclusion, with the single sensation of life disintegrating. At the moment of his realization, the narrator finds that he is able to better understand his particular circumstance, but, unfortunately, this
Joyce through his writings displayed mockery and a straightforward rebellion against the church and their beliefs. But surprisingly Joyce was introduced to the ideas of religion at an early age. At the age of six he began his religion enlightenment as he attended Clongowes Wood College whom emphasized Jesuit beliefs. During this time in Joyce’s life he was picked on by the other students attending this college. In one incident “A boy had snatched his glasses and stood on them but a priest believed that Joyce had done it himself to avoid lessons and gave him a ‘pandying’” (O'Brien 1). Events like this were probably the fuel to the fire of his dislike towards religion. “The Jesuits he called in his adult life a ‘heartless order that bears the name of Jesus by antiphrasis’” (O'Brien 1). Later, at around eleven years old, he transferred over to the Belvedere College in Dublin. (Ebook 1) After his graduation at Dublin he determined that he knew an adequate amount of of the Jesuit religion, he officially rejected it (Gray 1). “After some religious experiences he lost his faith, then his patriotism, and held up those with whom he formerly worshipped to ridicule, and his country and her aspirations to contempt” (Collins 1). “Joyce was a humanist. A Renaissance man. Man is the center. God is in man. Anyone who looks elsewhere is just an ignorant sheep” (Sheila 1).
What affected James Joyces’ writing most were the events going around him in Europe during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. However, his own experiences had an impact in his style and writing material. Joyce was born in 1882 in Dublin Ireland and lived through reformations, wars, and trails until he died in Zürich in 1941. He was a man much in to politics and was much interested how a country was being led. In the year 1914, James wrote 15 short stories known as Dubliners, which also includes the short story “Araby” (Thomas). “Araby” is a short story in which he writes describing a young lad’s curiosity and naïve experience with love and in which he describes his personal life as a boy . Ireland was not always free and independent as it is now. England had control of Ireland since it took control in 1798 (Allison). This had a big effect in the life of James for all his childhood their country was under the control of a foreign hand. When Joyce first published his short stories, there were uprisings in the countries around since that same year, World War 1 started. Because of the turmoil in the countries about, Joyce had fit these events in with his pieces of fiction.
James Joyce was born February 2, 1882, in Dublin, Ireland. He attended private Jesuit schools and graduated from University College, Dublin in 1902 with a degree in modern languages. After college he travels to Paris to study medicine but decides to write instead. He return back home to take care of his ill mother and starts a relationship with Nora Barnacle in the early 1900’s; they marry in 1931. After marriage they move back to Europe where he completes Dubliners. Joyce submits his work to the English Publisher Grant Richards. Richard states the stories are too contends and publish them nine years later. Joyce also publish Chamber Music, Ulysses (1907), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), and Finnegan’s Wake (1939) (Meyer 512). Joyce influences the way fiction is written in the twentieth century. He dies January 13, 1941 after moving to France during the World War II.
Joyce, James. Dubliners. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The Portable James Joyce. Harry Levin, ed. Penguin. 1976, New York. Ulysses. Vintage, New York. 1961.
To me, Ulysses was a necessary evil, in that I thought that I would not be able to call myself a literature student unless I had read the entire novel. While my journey through Ulysses was laden with moments of bewilderment, exasperation, and self-pity, I was able to power my way through the novel with a deeper appreciation for the way James Joyce was able to create a linear story told through a series of non-linear writing styles. In retrospect, the grueling challenge of reading Ulysses made me a better student, in that I was able to grow as a reader by adjusting myself to Joyce’s train-of-thought writing style, and that I could add Ulysses to my personal canon of academic literature.
Joyce could have given up and let the pain consume him, but he didn’t. In 1922, his iritis returned. It became so painful, that he consulted a French ophthalmologist. Joyce was able to find a new doctor who helped him and went through surgery. He recovered from his pain but his eyesight was still limited. Regardless, his wife stood by his side and loved him. Towards the end of Joyce’s life he became so blind that he no longer could walk without help of others. He did outrages things to keep his eyesight from becoming worse such as morphine and even went to extent of putting leeches in his
Peake, C.H. James Joyce: The Citizen and The Artist. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1977. 56-109.
Stephen's Journey to Maturation in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
In addition to the controversial content of the book was the matter of Joyce's style. Not denying Joyce's ability, Garnett wrote it was "ably written," except he felt that it was too "discursive, formless, unrestrained, and ugly things, ugly words, are too prominent." Also, Garnett criticized that it was too "unconventional," and "unless the author will use restraint and proportion he will not gain readers." Having read the book, I too agree with Garnett that the style in which the book was written does not encourage the reader to advance through the story.