James Joyce
Was an Irish, modernist writer who wrote in a ground-breaking style that was known both for its complexity and explicit content.
Here we can see a little bit about his life an his biography:
Then, we can see a long documentary about his life...
Synopsis
James Joyce was born on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland. He published "Portrait of the Artist" in 1916 and caught the attention of Ezra Pound. With "Ulysses," Joyce perfected his stream-of-consciousness style and became a literary celebrity. The explicit content of his prose brought about landmark legal decisions on obscenity. Joyce battled eye ailments for most of his life. He died in 1941.
Profile
Writer. Born James Augustine Aloysius Joyce on February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland. Joyce was one of the most revered writers of the 20th century, whose landmark book, Ulysses, is often hailed as one of the finest novels ever written. His exploration of language and new literary forms showed not only his genius as a writer but spawned a fresh approach for novelists, one that drew heavily on Joyce's love of the stream-of-consciousness technique and the examination of big events through small happenings in everyday lives.
(James Joyce's family)
Joyce came from a big family. He was the eldest of ten children born to John Stanislaus Joyce and his wife Marry Murray Joyce. His father, while a talented singer (he reportedly had one of the finest tenor voices in all of Ireland), didn't provide a stable a household. He liked to drink and his lack of attention to the family finances meant the Joyces never had much money.
From an early age, James Joyce showed not only exceeding intelligence but also a gift for writing and a passion for literature. He taught himself Norwegian so he could read Henrik Ibsen's plays in the language they'd been written, and spent his free time devouring Dante, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas.
Because of his intelligence Joyce's family pushed him to get an education. Largely educated by Jesuits, Joyce attended the Irish schools of Clongowes Wood College and later Belvedere College before finally landing at University College Dublin, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a focus on modern languages.
(Clongowes Wood College)
Joyce's relationship with his native country was a complex one and after graduating he left Ireland for a new life in Paris where he hoped to study medicine. He returned, however, not long after upon learning that his mother had become sick. She died in 1903.
Joyce stayed in Ireland for a short time, long enough to meet Nora Barnacle, a hotel chambermaid who hailed from Galway and later became his wife. Around this time, Joyce also had his first short story published in the Irish Homestead magazine. The publication picked up two more Joyce works, but this start of a literary career was not enough to keep him in Ireland and in late 1904 he and Barnacle moved first to what is now the Croatian city of Pula before settling in the Italian seaport city of Trieste.
(Homestead magazine)
There, Joyce taught English and learned Italian, one of 17 languages he could speak, a list that included Arabic, Sanskrit, and Greek. Other moves followed, as the Joyce and Barnacle (the two weren't formally married until some three decades after they met) made their home in cities like Rome and Paris. To keep his family above water (the couple went on to have two children, Georgio and Lucia) Joyce continued to find work as a teacher.
All the while, though, Joyce continued to write and in 1914 he published his first book, Dubliners, a collection of 15 short stories. Two years later Joyce put out a second book, the novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
While not a huge commercial success, the book caught the attention of the American poet, Ezra Pound, who praised Joyce for his unconventional style and voice.
The same year that the Dubliners came out, Joyce embarked on what would prove to be his landmark novel: Ulysses. The story recounts a single day in Dublin. The date: June 16, 1904, the same day that Joyce and Barnacle met. On the surface, the novel follows the story three central characters, Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, a Jewish advertising canvasser, and his wife Molly Bloom, as well as the city life that unfolds around them. But Ulysses is also a modern retelling of Homer's Odyssey, with the three main characters serving as modern versions of Telemachus, Ulysses, and Penelope.
With its advanced use of interior monologue, the novel not only brought the reader deep into Stephen Bloom's sometimes lurid mind, but pioneered Joyce's use of stream of consciousnesses as a literary technique and set the course for a whole new kind of novel. But Ulysses is not an easy read, and upon its publication in Paris in 1922 by Sylvia Beach, an American expat who owned a bookstore in the city, the book drew both praise and sharp criticism.
All of which only helped bolster the novel's sales. Not that it really needed the help. Long before Ulysses ever came out, debate raged over the content of the novel. Parts of the story had appeared in English and American publications and in the US and the UK the book was banned for several years after it was published in France. In the US, Ulysses's supposed obscenity prompted the Post Office to confiscate issues of the magazine that had published Joyce's work. Fines were levied against the editors, and a censorship battle was waged that only further hyped the novel.
Still, the book found its way into the hands of eager American and British readers, who managed to get hold of bootlegged copies of the novel. In the US, the ban came to a head in 1932 when in New York City Customs Agents seized copies of the book that had been sent to Random House, which wanted to publish the book.
The case made its way to court where in 1934 Judge John M. Woolsey came down in favor of the publishing company by declaring that Ulysses was not pornographic. American readers were free to read the book. In 1936, British fans of Joyce were allowed to do the same.
While he sometimes resented the attention Ulysses brought him, Joyce saw his days as a struggling writer come to an end with the book's publication. It hadn't been an easy road. During World War I, Joyce had moved his family to Zurich, where they subsisted on the generosity of English magazine editor, Harriet Weaver, and Barnacle's uncle.
Eventually Joyce and his family settled into a new life in Paris, which is where they were living when Ulysses was published. Success, however, couldn't protect Joyce from health issues. His most problematic condition concerned his eyes. He suffered from a constant stream of ocular illnesses, went through a host of surgeries, and for a number of years was near blind. At times Joyce was forced to write in red crayon on sheets of large paper.
In 1939 Joyce published Finnegan's Wake, his long awaited follow up novel, which, with its myriad of puns and new words, proved to be an even more difficult read than his previous work. Still, the book was an immediate success, earning "book of the week" honors in the US and the United Kingdom not long after debuting.
A year after Finnegan's publication, Joyce and his family were on the move again, this time to southern France in advance of the coming Nazi invasion of Paris. Eventually the family ended back in Zurich.
Sadly, Joyce never saw the conclusion of World War II. Following an intestinal operation, the writer died at the age of 59 on January 13, 1941 at the Schwesternhause von Roten Kreuz Hospital. His wife and son were at his bedside when he passed. He is buried in Fluntern cemetery in Zurich.
(James Joyce's grave)
Araby
This story happens on firsts of century, in Dublin. The main character is a boy who lives in North Richmond Street, a quiet street where he lives with his uncle and aunt. He studies on a religious school. Every day, he met his friends. One day, when he’s playing, he see his friend Mangnan’s sister, and he fall in love. Every day, the boy follows him to school. One day, the girl asks him if he will go to araby. The boy don’t remember what did he say, because he was very shocked. The girl says that she would like to go, but she can’t. The boy promises him that if he goes, he would bring her something.
His uncle promises him that he will bring some money for shop something. But he forgets, and the boy spends all day waiting for his uncle. When he arrives, the boy is very disappointed, but he decides to go to Araby in train.
When he arrive, the bazar is dark, and most of the shops are closed. He only see two or three shops that still opened yet. He wants to shop something to the girl, but, with the money that her ouncle has given to him, he can’t, because the things are too expensive. So, finally, he decide to go, angry, sad and disappointed with himself.
Oscar Wilde
(Oscar Wilde)
(His family)
Synopsis
Born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin, Irish writer Oscar Wilde is best Known
for the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the play The Importance of Being
Earnest, as well as for historical Infamous arrest and imprisonment for Being
Gay.
Profile
Noted for his work, especially in the theater, which portrays the true face of the noble society of his time. Demonstrated in each of his works was a great connoisseur of human thought and behavior, and their best works, uses humor and purest English to describe the world as he saw it.
Wilde was a brilliant and
original writer ; an artist devoted to art for art and equipped with
extraordinary refinement , great wit and liveliness of a cult of beauty. Some
commentators blame stingy criterion of its success to the same abnormality of
his life and the atmosphere created around him by the resonant process of their
disorders . Raised against these criteria the
most.
The success of Oscar Wilde is due to only one reason: it is one of the finest writers of contemporary literature, endowed with high qualities, talent, grace, originality, wit, critical thinking, refinement of style that made immortal the name of a true creator of art. His work, imbued with a width value of universality, is friendly and understandable to people of all latitudes, not reduced, as is the case in many of their English contemporaries, a difficult racial sensitivity and understanding exotic export . If the public do something to Wilde and more publishers and the public criticism has been to repair the injustice done to him by England, restaurant, even in the same land Britain, thanks mainly to the group serene and generous captained the admirable Mr. Robert Ross, the memory of a victim of human society and enforced and lit love to play so many important concepts.
Personal life and prision sentence
Oscar 's father was a renowned physician who was knighted for his work as medical adviser to the Irish census . Later William Wilde founded the Eye Hospital San Marcos. The mother, Jane Francesca Elgee , was a poet , had a profound influence on later writing of his son.
Wilde was an intelligent and studious child. He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen . After graduating Wilde was awarded a scholarship from the Royal School of attending Trinity College Dublin where he received a scholarship again.
(Portora Royal School)
(Trinity College)
After graduation in 1874 , Wilde received the Berkeley Gold Medal for best student in Trinity Greek and the Demyship scholarship for study at Magdalen College, Oxford. At Oxford , Wilde continued to excel academically , receiving marks first level of the examiners in both classical and classical moderations . It was also at Oxford that Wilde made his first sustained attempts at creative writing. In 1878 , the year of his graduation, his poem " Ravenna " , won the Newdigate Prize for the best composition in English verse by a student at Oxford.
After graduation in 1874 , Wilde received the Berkeley Gold Medal for best student in Trinity Greek and the Demyship scholarship for study at Magdalen College, Oxford. At Oxford , Wilde continued to excel academically , receiving marks first level of the examiners in both classical and classical moderations . It was also at Oxford that Wilde made his first sustained attempts at creative writing. In 1878 , the year of his graduation, his poem " Ravenna " , won the Newdigate Prize for the best composition in English verse by a student at Oxford.
(Magdalen College)
Upon graduation again , he moved to London to live with her friend. There, he continued to focus on writing poetry , publishing his first collection, a year later, Wilde traveled from London to New York to embark on a lecture tour of the United States.While it is not a lecture , he managed to meet with some of the leading American scholars and literary figures of the time.
At the conclusion of his tour of America, returned home and immediately started another lecture circuit in England and Ireland.The May 29, 1884, Wilde married a rich Englishwoman named Constance Lloyd. They had two children.
Oscar's Wilde
Later Wilde began an affair with a young man named Lord Alfred Douglas. Douglas' s father, the Marquess of Queensberry, who had heard the case and Oscar ended in a trial where he was told that there would be in jail for two years
(Alfred Douglas)
Wilde was released from prison in 1897, physically exhausted, emotionally exhausted and broke. Went into exile in France, wheres, living in cheap hotels and apartments of friends, had met briefly with Douglas. These Wilde wrote very little in recent years.
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Task 4
Relexioneu:
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Are
these writers important for Irish culture? Could you notice their importance
while visiting Dublin? Why?
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- You can see some escultures and references to these autors also when a turis visit this city the one of the most important places to visit is these two statues, Wilde's statue and Joyce's statue.
Videobiography
Movies: here we can see some of oscar's films, we hope enjoy it!!
THE POSTCARD
-Sorry, do you know a place to buy postcards? Perdoni, sap algun lloc on pugui comprar postals?
-I’d want that postcard, please. Voldria aquesta postal, siusplau.
-Do you sell postcards? Venen postals?
-Could you borrow me a pen please? Podria deixar-me un bolígraf, siusplau?
-How much is it? Quant costa?
-Sorry, do you know where it is the post office? Perdoni, sap on és l’oficina de correus?
-Hello, I’d want a stamp, please. Hola, voldria un segell, siusplau.
-Where is the mailbox to send my postcard? On es la bústia per a enviar la meva postal?
Dublin’s post office
During the Easter Rising of 1916, the GPO served as the headquarters of the uprising's leaders. The building was destroyed by fire in the course of the rebellion and not repaired until the Irish Free State government took up the task some years later. The facade is all that remains of the original building. An original copy of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic is on display in the An Post museum at the GPO, where an exhibition, Letters, Lives & Liberty, highlights the history of the Post Office and the GPO. The building has remained a symbol of Irish nationalism. In commemoration of the Rising, a statue depicting the death of the mythical hero Cúchulainnsculpted by Oliver Sheppard in 1911 is housed in the front of the building and was featured on the Irish ten shilling coin of 1966. Despite its fame as an iconic place of Irish freedom, ground rent continued to be paid to English and American landlords until the 1980s.
The broadcasting studios of 2RN, which later became Radio Éireann, were located at the GPO from 1928 until 1974. Draws for Prize Bonds are held weekly, on Fridays, in the building.Nelson's Pillar was formerly located in the centre of O'Connell Street adjacent to the GPO. However the Pillar was destroyed by the IRA in an explosion in 1966. The Spire of Dublin now takes a dominant position on the site of the Pillar.
Information from: Wikipedia
THE ALPHABET
- The difference between english alphabet and irish alphabet is that in english we shouldn't put accents and in gaaelic alphabet we use a lot this figure.
- We listen speak some expressions in irish of our guide, for member's garda...
- When we talk outside of Dublin, that is, small towns of older people, we can hear people talking this language.
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