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5 A - James Joyce. Dubliners and UlyssesThe present area is devoted to the short stories selected from J. Joyce's Dubliners.
Consider Joyce's intention in writing Dubliners according to his own words:
"to write a chapter of the moral history of his country, and he chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to him the centre of paralysis"
He tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life.
At the same time study the following resource as a useful introduction to the collection
- Dubliners
- Eveline
The Dead. A useful document for study purpose
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Read on line Ulysses
- On Ulysses
- Linati Schema
- About James Joyce
- Analyse an excerpt from Penelope
- The Mythical Method
Now considering all that you have studied so about Modernist Fiction find out:
- what aspects mark modernism and modernist fiction in contrast to earlier and later trends in literature and the novel
- what nineteenth century literature was mostly concerned with
- the new way of conceiving knowledge, time, the individual and consciousness in Modernist fiction
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