The Life of James Joyce
In selecting James Joyce's Ulysses as the best novel of the twentieth century, Time magazine affirmed Joyce's lasting legacy in the realm of English literature. James Joyce (1882-1941), the twentieth century Irish novelist, short story writer and poet is a major literary figure of the twentieth-century. Regarded as "the most international of writers in EnglishK[with] a global reputation (Attridge, pix), Joyce's stature in literature stems from his experimentation with English prose. Influenced by European writers and an encyclopedic knowledge of European literatures, Joyce's distinctive writing style includes epiphanies, the stream-of-consciousness technique and conciseness.Born in Rathgar, near Dubtin, in 1882, he lived his adult life in Europe and died in Zurich, Switzerland in 1941. The eldest of then children, Joyce attended a Jesuit boarding school Clongowes Wood from 18888-1891 and Belvedere College, another Jesuit school from 1893-1898. In 1902, Joyce graduated from University College and went to live in exile in Europe unable to tolerate the narrow-mindedness of his native country. Ironically, Ireland and Irish people become the subject of his short stories and novels. The two central preoccupations of his work ar
7. Kenner, Hugh, Fritz Senn, E.L. Esptein, Robert Boyle, SJ. A Starchamber Quiry: a James Joyce Centennial Volume, 1882-1982. New York: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1982. 5. "Joyce, James Augustine Aloysins." Microsoft Corpuration. Encarta. CD-Rom. Encarta. 1993-1996. Of all his literary countryman, the only Irish literary who's left a profound impression on Joyce was that Irish nationalist poet, James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849). In the short story "Araby," Joyce pays tribute to the poet by naming the narrator's classmate, Mangan. Joyce identified with Mangen because of his linguistic skill and knowledge of the literature of Italy, Spain, France and Germany. Furthermore, Mangan was disdained by his Irish contemporaries--a gesture Joyce considered an act of treachery. Joyce's experimentation with prose continued in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man published in 1916. Although the novel contains stories of epiphanies, there is the beginning of Joyce's use of the stream-of-consciousness technique. The narration in the novel takes place in the mind of the protagonist, Stephan Dedalus undergoes a self-analysis to gain insight into his true nature. Having gained confidence employing the stream-of-consciousness technique, Joyce used it extensively in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegan's Wake (1939). In Ulysses, Joyce depicted the experiences and the fantasies of various men and women in Dublin on a summer day in 1904. Joyce spent seventeen years writing Finnegan's Wake, a 628 page "labyrinthe novel." (Rice p.32) The novel has confounded not only readers but critics also; Michael Begnal offers this explanation: "the basic plot of Finnegan's Wake is a level of nar
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