《英美文学教学资料》James Joyce.pptVIP

“Eveline” By James Joyce James Joyce (1882- 1941) The most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist His virtuoso/ artistic experiments in writing have recreated the form of modern novel. His mastery of the English language is also highly praised. Born in an Irish Catholic family in Dublin. Renounced Catholicism at adolescence. Left Ireland and lived in Italy and Switzerland as “a voluntary exile”. Suffered from an eye disease and lived all his life on the verge of poverty. As a writer, he was self-conscious and self-prepared. To enrich his knowledge, Joyce read widely in different fields His long search of his identity, his resolute fight for freedom and independence, his conscientious accumulation of knowledge all aimed to become a devoted artist. To be an artist, he absorbed the quintessence from the important thinkers in European history. He derived much of his aesthetic theory from Aristotle, Aquinas (阿奎奈) and Bergson; the elements of naturalism in his works came from Flaubert and Ibsen; he was strongly influenced by Vico’s theory of history, Nietzshe’s atheism and nihilism, and Freud’s psychoanalysis. Major Themes Joyce is concerned with the themes of the artist and the nature of artistic creation, the humor and tragedy of human life, and also about the relationship between mind and body, especially when the author is attempting to show all the half-formed thoughts that go through the characters’ minds. Techniques In his writings, Joyce likes to use references to ancient stories and adopts a completely new style of writing which allows the reader to move inside the minds of the characters, and presents their thoughts and feelings in a continuous dream. This style is known as “stream of consciousness”, and it has had a powerful influence on the work of many other modernist writers. Master pieces: Dubliners(1914): a collection of 15 short stories, all realistic and impressionistic studies of the Irish capital. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young