James Joyce
Essays

Saint Thomas Aquinas was a thirteenth century Dominican monk: Soccio notes that "Dominicans were dedicated to education and to preaching to common people" (Soccio 219). It is this learned quality which permeates…

This paper explores the parallels and influence of ancient Near Eastern / Mesopotamian mythology on the more familiar classical Greek myths. It begins with an examination of parallels between the Homeric epic and Gilgamesh, noting that motifs would not have been influenced by readership but by oral transmission. it then examines explicit mythographic writing in terms of the depictions of goddesses in Mesopotamian and Greek myth. The essay includes two primary and three secondary source quotations.

James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man tells the story of Stephen Dedalus as he grows from an introspective and conscious young man into a rebellious and disaffected adult.

Joyce's remembers his own adolescent emerging from boyhood fantasies into the harsh realities of quotidian life in Ireland in the late nineteenth century. The time that Joyce captures in his story is one of self-discovery. And it is also a time of idealistic first crushes—which can only be remembered favorably after a sufficient passage of time. Joyce captures the phase of adoration that young people pass through as they try to figure out their roles in society as men and women. The idolizing of women by knights is good example of immature attempts to perfect the object of one's desire—but it has absolutely no relation to reality.

Chapter One of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traces Stephen Dedalus's early childhood experiences from his toddler years through his first term at boarding school.

This essay compares two short stories of William Faulkner and James Joyce. In both "Barn Burning" and "Araby," two male narrators face the end of their childhoods and progress into adulthood. Both of their experiences are painful and neither enters the world of adults willingly. The idea is that no one can escape the path to the adult world.

If we were to concern ourselves strictly with plot, we might well say of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man that there is no there. Not a great deal actually happens in this essentially…

Responsibility, Obligation, Suffering and Sacrifice in James Joyce's Eveline

An analysis of living death in terms of being emotionally dead, dying, or emotionally dying in Joyce's "The Dead." The death of Gabriel and Gretta's relationship, the death of vitality, the death of Gabriel's family are analyzed to demonstrate how death pervades and is a recurring theme in Gabriel's life and everyone he comes into contact with.

The character that James Joyce portrays in his collection of short stories, Dubliners, is attempting to escape unsatisfying conditions that he find himself in during childhood. In three of the stories, "Sisters," "The…