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Analysis of James Joyce Short Stories
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, 2015
Collection of short stories of James Joyce in a book under the title of “Dubliners” (1914) is a collection composing of 15 short stories, which topic of all of them is living in Dublin (stories about death, love, live in school, etc.). Short story of “sisters” narrates feelings of a boy about death of a priest. The first woman, who is afraid of love, a mother in law speaks about ambition and destroys her daughter. It ispainful narrative of a single man, who leaves the woman he loves and the woman finds in the time of her death that he has been in his loneliness all his life. Accordingly, it could be mentioned that the author has selected in his short stories a style that Flober has been its establisher. Hence, stories in the collection of Dubliners have been strongly image-based and have been less relied on storied actions. (Stein et al, 2008) The present study has analyzed two short stories of the mentioned collection under the titles of “The Dead Persons” and “The sisters\s”. In t...
James Joyce’un ‘Eveline’ ve ‘The Boarding House’ adlı Hikayelerindeki Ruhsal Çöküntü ve Epifani
DergiPark (Istanbul University), 2012
This article intends to highlight James Joyce's ironical outlook for the existence of epiphanies in women's lives to be released from their spiritual paralysis and stagnation as indicated in "Eveline" (1904) and "The Boarding House" (1906) in Dubliners. In "Eveline" and "The Boarding House," Joyce portrays women who are in a struggle for setting aside the inequalities and miseries of their social environment through their representative wish for emancipation in their lonely and alienated state of minds. Trapped in a web of social expectations and constraints, women intend to escape from the strict patriarchal society of Dublin in these short stories. Structured and controlled by the issue of femininity, James Joyce writes about the effects of the Irish society on female adolescents. "Eveline" and "The Boarding House" offer two portrayals of women who are enclosed by the dominance of the rigid patriarchal society which ends up the need for emancipation from social rigid rules. In these stories, however, the women characters portray a continuation of the choice of their domestic female roles, i.e., their struggle for emancipation turns out to be useless. "Eveline" is the story of a young teenager who faces a dilemma where she has to choose either she has to live with her father or escape with his boyfriend. In "The Boarding House," Mrs. Mooney, a working woman who has rooms to be rented by the young male lodgers, is also in a struggle for supporting herself and her two children. She is in search for emancipation from her drunken abusive husband having social prejudices. Hence, both of these stories highlight women's tendency for exploring their selfhood and free will because of the inequalities and struggles of patriarchal society of the time in which they are spiritually paralyzed. Thus, James Joyce hints at women's wish for emancipation
The Sense of the Unending in Joyce’s Dubliners
Folia Linguistica et Litteraria, 2018
Based on the main structural and narrative elements and drawing on the predominant views in the short story theory, this paper deals with the analysis of endings in Joyce's Dubliners, as well as with various modes of their constitution regarding the effect they produce. Since the ending is regarded as the crucial component of short fiction, and bearing in mind the exuberant formal, thematic, symbolic and poetic potential that Joyce's concept of epiphany has in the structuring of ends, it can be said that Dubliners is a collection that set the standard in the genre. This article aims at delineating the differences between the closed and open ends, pointing to the complex ontological implications of the latter ones, particularly in the light of the final story's ending, "The Dead", which also marked a multiple crossing of borders in terms of the form, genre and general poetics of James Joyce.
Dana Radler, Feasting to Death: Life as Dream and Desire in James Joyce’s "The Dead"
Philologica Jassyensia, 2019
Closing the "Dubliners" and the representation of the Irish capital and community setting at the turn of the century, "The Dead" is the longest piece, concluding the set of stories with a distinct message about life and intellectual fulfilment. From manuscript to print, the collection went through a seven-year saga of trial and error with various publishers, being finally published in 1914, after the entire first print-run was burned before it could reach the public, on 11 September 1912 (Fargnoli and Patrick 1995: 145). Charles Levin and Charles Shattuck looked at it as a series of 15 vignettes (1944: 30), linking the series to Joyce’s own confession in May 1906 to his publisher about the “paralysis” covering the whole collection and, then, explaining the stories as a journey focused on four main stages: “childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life” (Ellmann 1975: 83). While inspecting such contributions, this paper attempts to employ resources provided by psychoanalytic criticism and offer a wider interpretation about identity, love and death as illuminating topics in the Joycean universe. Earlier criticism focused on exploring links between Joyce’s life and his vision (Magalaner, Kain, 1956; Gilbert, Ellmann 1966; Tindall, 1959; Bowen, Carens, 1984; Bollettieri Bosinelli, Mosher 1998, Bloom 1999), his place in the twentieth-century Irish writing (Garrett 1986; Torchiana, 1986; Beja 1989; Henke 1990), while recent studies provide topical insights (Schwaber 2000, Fargnoli, Gillespie 2006; Sakr 2008, McArdle 2010; Oatley, Djikic et alii 2016, Olivares Merino 2016). As Patrick Parrinder notes in his study, in the years Joyce wrote and waited for Dubliners to come into print, symbolism “was a topical and widely discussed literary technique” (Parrinder1984: 51), yet Parrinder rejects the idea launched by Levin and Shattuck about the parallelism to the Odyssey. The final story of "Dubliners" can be nevertheless discussed in the light of concepts such as Eros and Thanatos, dream and the use of symbols and metaphors. The main questions I address are: is the party described in the story a genuine communal gathering, or is it meant to foresee mental isolation and annihilation, placing the key protagonists at a huge distance from each other, despite their apparent love? And is snow, the final symbolic element covering the city, working as a hint to purification or merely suggesting a world reduced to silence by its own death? This paper employs psychoanalytic criticism for a close reading of the story, inspecting the construct in terms of primary drives, as well as the questionable actions and thoughts of the key protagonists.
Spiritual Paralysis and Epiphany: James Joyce’s “Eveline” and “The Boarding House”
Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences, 2012
Bu makale, James Joyce’un Dubliners adli eserinde bulunan “Eveline” (1904) ve “The Boarding House” (1906) adli hikayelerinde gorulen kadin karakterlerin icine dustukleri ruhsal cokuntuden, hayatlarinda degisiklige sebep olan anlik olaylarin (epiphany) etkisiyle kurtulduklarini ironik olarak gostermeyi amaclamaktadir. Joyce, “Eveline” ve “The Boarding House” adli hikayelerinde, kadinin sosyal cevresindeki esitsizlikten ve aciya sebep olan durumlardan kurtulamadiklarinindan dolayi yalnizlasmis ve toplumdan uzaklasmis zihneyetleri ile basbasa kaldiklarini vurgulamaktadir. Bu hikayelerde, sosyal sinirlamalara maruz kalan kadinlarin buyuk cogunlugunun, o donemde Irlanda’nin Dublin sehrinde hakim olan ataerkil yapidaki yalnizlasmayi ve uzaklasmayi yansittigi gorulmektedir. Dolayisiyla, Joyce bu hikayelerde sosyal toplumun kadinlar ve genc kizlar uzerindeki etkilerine deginmekte olup erkeklerin hakim oldugu kati sosyal toplumdan kadinlarin kacis cabalarini belirtmektedir. Gozlenen odur ki,...
A Dublin Paradox through James Joyce’s “Eveline”
Every “place” has psychological effects on its residents to some extent, as well as, in a very practical sense, physical effects. This is because people have the tendency to adapt themselves to the environmental conditions of the places that they sustain their lives by acquiring the “character” of those places. Reflections of these psychological effects can be clearly seen in many literary works. James Joyce’s Dubliners, is a good example of this affection as a reflection. In his book, Joyce examined the middle-class Irish society from which he originated. He said Dubliners was a looking-glass in which the Irish people could see themselves and their paralysis (Walzl 31).
The Oppression and Paralysis of Women in Joyce’s “Eveline” and “The Boarding House”
James Joyce's collection of short stories; Dubliners is one of the most famous modernist works in the history of literature. Stories in the collection have common qualities such as the similarity of themes and techniques and have an order according to these qualities. This paper will examine two of these stories: "Eveline" and "The Boarding House" and the themes of paralysis, oppression and emancipation. The difference between these stories which is the existence of the paralysis of both genders is going to be the other aspect. The stories of "The Boarding House" and "Eveline" in Dubliners states the oppressed and paralyzed state of women and Ireland by the employment of modernist techniques such as epiphany and open-ending.
'Passive, Like a Helpless Animal': A Psychoanalytic Study of Eveline in James Joyce's "Eveline"
VEDA'S JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE [JOELL], 2017
In James Joyce's intriguing short story "Eveline", the protagonist Eveline Hill and her life were vastly affected by her traumas of personal history, thus, making her passive, like a helpless animal. This particular paper tries to evaluate the character Eveline from the psychoanalytical point of view and find out why this character behaved in a certain way. She was driven by her Superego and failed to rationalize with her Id and Ego for which she felt guilty, passive and helpless. All her important actions and decisions were majorly influenced by the treatment that she obtained from her family especially from her father in the childhood which contributed to her inner conflicts and eventually made her psychologically paralyzed. This work might be helpful for those researchers who would like to grasp more knowledge on psychoanalytic study or analyzing any character from a psychoanalytic point of view.
ADULT PROTAGONISTS IN JAMES JOYCE’S “DUBLINERS” (p. 251-253)
IRCEELT-2016 Proceedings , 2016
Joyce termed the collection of short stories “Dubliners” as a “chapter of Dublin’s moral history”. The collection is subdivided into four main branches: childhood, youth, adulthood, and social cycles. The third cycle is a matter of our focal interest. It consists of four stories: “A Little Cloud”, “Counterparts”, “Clay” and “A Painful Case”. Despite the age, gender, and social differences, all protagonists have the unifying traits - their inability to change their life or environment, fear of freedom. They are captivated by a deadly routine that drains life out of them and leads to ‘paralysis’, which is the natural state of Dublin. This cycle is the most tragic part of the “Dubliners”, as after the first feeble and futile attempt of releasing themselves from the deadly influence of Dublin, the young protagonists of the previous cycle join the humble and mute majority and turn into the grim protagonists of the adult cycle, who have to face the outcomes of their cowardice and indecisiveness in the period of youth and resort to violence and alcohol as the means of escape from reality. The ‘paralysis’ of the key characters in the collection of short stories is emphasized by means of numerous artistic devices. Joyce refers to such symbols as colours associated with death and decay: yellow, grey, brown - the weather, which is usually drab, gloomy and rainy, constant darkness, and the lack of bright colours; the symbol of the circle - despite its positive connotation in general, as a form of harmony, in this collection, the circle denotes enslavement, deadlock, and constant repetition of the monotonous routine which lives no way out. Keywords: Dublin, paralysis, indecisive, freedom, violence, routine