- Modernist
- 1882; Rathgar near Dublin Ireland
- Clongowes Wood College
- Belvedere College
- University College in Dublin
- Companion of Modernism
- Published in serial form 1914-1915
- Details of Joyce's early life
- novel's protagonist Stephen Dedalus
- impoverished father/highly Catholic mother
- powerful autobiographical experience among fictional settings
- Christmas Dinner
- 1st sexual experience with Dublin Prostitute
- Politics & religion of early-twentieth-century Ireland
- Ireland under British rule since 16th Century
- Religions tension
- political tension - potato blight of 1845
- White colonies
- Ireland, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand
- India
- Africa
- Joyce 1882 born in Dublin
- Joyce's father drank all his inheritance, Broke by time Joyce is 12
- Joyce's mother - 4 boys 6 girls
- dies at 44
- poverty and chaos
- bio by Richard Ellmann
- Joyce sent to Jesuit school at 6
- Joyce wanted to write the truth
- graduate from college at 16, Latin, French, Italian
- Gets to know Yeates,
- He runs to Italy with Nora to teach English at a Berlitz school
- Joyce says the main theme in paralysis. What keeps them trapped?
- Fear of change (Eveline) doesn't choose at all
- Pale and cold=death
- lots of internal death
- Characters are not self-aware. Most never ask "what do I want?"
- "The general paralysis of an insane society"
- Little Chandler - big dreams, no effort, trapped
- Mr. Duffy -
- turns prose into poetry
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- Stephen Dedalus, young boy growing up in Ireland at the end of the 19th Century
- Gradually cast off social, familial & religious constraints
- father inept with money, family further in debt
- sexual encounter = shame/guilt
- reconcile stern Catholic faith
- Variety of sins
- Masterbation
- gluttony
- more visits with prostitutes
- rededicate to Christian piety
- so devout; asked to enter priesthood
- love & desire of beauty should not be sources of shame
- life to the fullest
- breaks constraints of family, nation & religion again
- leave Ireland
- build wings he can fly above all obstacles & achieve life as an artist
- Individual consciousness
- Pitfall of Religions extremism
- Role of an Artist
- WWI - no plot, fragmentation, no trust in old values
- Didn't want to tell their story with old tools
- Chapter 1 - epiphany - Lifes unfairness, stand up for yourself
- Chapter 2 - epiphany - meets the prostitute
- Chapter 4 - epiphany - needs to be an artist
- Took himself from the inside to the outside
- Irish identity
- No God, no Ireland
- dramatic irony of what he thinks and what we think
- shallow in relation to women/mother/whore
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