ENGL10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Terry Eagleton, Finnegans Wake, Eveline
15 Jun 2018
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Lit Week 2 Lecture Notes
Lecture 1
Dubliners
• JJ’s positio e. odeists – not in the middle, but not outside – transitional writer
• Virginia Woolf – disliked Ulysses – ilful isudestadig o W’s pat
• “tog opiios o JJ’s itig
• J’s ok develops and becomes complex/incomprehensible for some
• Connections between 19 and 20 C
• JJ found diff. fidig pu ho did’t fea poseutio fo oseity
• J’s 19C oots – does’t piilege iteal life of haas. Like realist novels often do
• Modernism crit. – elitist, aloof, above people – but J is of the people
• J – confront reader with the ordinary
• Londublin essay
• J tied to elide siilaities etee his ad Dikes’ itig – attraction to and
repulsion from the city they write about
• Stream of consciousness becomes important to JJ later in his writing
• Ulysses – mass culture, street
• Fiega’s Wake – controversial
• Late 19c early 20c – revivalism – Ireland – reclaim irish culture from English
colonialism – Osa Wilde’s othe at foefont of this movement
• Myth and memory –important part of irish identity
• Cultural memory
• J engages with importance of memory
• The Dead – sog’s diff. eaigs /oetio
• Mundanity of daily life vs. myth
• High culture vs. autobiography
• J pits his work against Yeats, Irish revival
• His ordinary language in mainstream lit is highly political, giving Irish people a voice
• Myth and Catholicism linked for Joyce – Irishness and Catholocism linked
• Tey Eagleto o JJ’s style – see slides
• Joyce – 1st great urban writer of Ireland – metropolitan
• Dubliners – state of paralysis – nothing changes, develops in Dublin
• Stasis of being under colonial rule
• Claustrophobia, short story itself is entrapping, claustrophobic
• J’s Duli is deay
• Chaates do’t deelop o hage,- Dublin confounds bildungsroman of the 19C –
haate’s jouey/goth is hated – Eelie – evokes this idea
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