ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture : History of English Literature-Mar.15 James Joyce
15 Mar 2012
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A powerful, but complex and fragile, moment of revelation for character and reader; a profound realization of the human condition. Prizes a new seeing of one"s self in the world. From a catholic dublin family educated by jesuits and at the university college (catholic university: spent much time writing about dirty dublin" touching on many aesthetic, wrote ulysses (as a stream of consciousness) Worried about his education fears of social failures run throughout: also an obsession with memory living in the past, being driven by the past, shaping who people become (greta and michael fury) Powerful women: miss ivor the independent nationalist. The politics how is it like mrs. Dissonance between his speaking of going back to the old ways, but sick of his own country gives the division and falsehood in his position. Easter 1916 conscious of the division between the nationalists before and after, embracing the chaos after.
