James Joyce
Essays

Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated novel Lolita is a linguistic masterpiece which ranges its author in the same line with other geniuses, such as James Joyce or Thomas Pynchon. Admittedly, Nabokov's writings are situated on…

The Renaissance heralded in an entirely new tradition of art form during the 14th and 15th centuries, with a wide variety of painters, poets, writers and architects that literally and figuratively saw the world in a…

Irish Renaissance was a literary event at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries in which there was a revival of interest in Irish culture, expressed in a literary explosion through writers…

The start of the 20th century saw one of the most interesting and at the same time captivating trends in the history of literature. The Modernist period is considered by many to have been a crucial moment in the…

What was the social scene in Dublin at the time James Joyce wrote the Dubliners and in particular his iconic short story "A Mother" -- one of the most debated tales in the Dubliners?

Poor Eveline. She was faint of heart, scared, and terribly nervous in general--especially when it came to matters regarding her family or leaving them for her lover to sale the high seas to South America. If her brutish father had not done a number on her with his violence, and played the same dirty tricks on her mother, she might have had a chance for happiness...

This paper analyzes two American poems from the early part of the twentieth century: Amy Lowell's "Madonna of the Evening Flowers" and T.S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The emphasis is on the different handling of the traditional genre of love poetry. Lowell is understood as using religious imagery to approach the love poem and "make it new" (in Ezra Pound's words). Eliot by contrast uses effects of comedy and satire to create a collage-effect to renovate the idea of a love-poem. Conclusion describes Lowell's use of religious imagery as being the only available means whereby to approach writing a lesbian love-poem at the time of the First World War--to that extent, Lowell's poem is described as being more "shocking" and modern (despite its comparatively placid exterior) than Eliot's poem.

Within James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, we find a semiautobiographical rendering of Joyce's fully autobiographical conception of himself, called Stephen Hero.

Sexual Conduct and Prostitution in "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"

James Joyce develops strong female characters in his short story "The Dead" and uses them in contrast to the men. The primary contrast is that between Gretta and Gabriel, and while Gretta is described in feminine terms…