James Joyce
Essays

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.

Disappointment and Heartache in James Joyce's "Araby," "Eveline," and "The Boarding House."

The Need for a New Critical Edition of James Joyce's Dubliners

Comparison of the Life of James Joyce and His Work "Dubliners"

In order to understand the poetical works of Dylan Thomas, one must fully explore his cultural/societal background which will provide the foundation for appreciating his magnificent poetry which Elder Olson declares…

The Themes of Sin and a Lack of Priestly Redemption in Joyce and MacLaverty

The term 'Post modernism' has emerged as a real area of academic study only from the middle of the 1980's onwards. It is a complicated and a complex term, quite difficult to define exactly, and the reason for this is…

¶ … fall from Innocence, a Fall From Eden: The Structure of "An Encounter" and "Araby"

The contrast between Modernist and Contemporary literature is vast. Both reflect the particular ages that they were created in. Modernism was authored in the late 19th to early 20th centuries when psychodynamics was on its rise; existentialist philosophy was the philosophy of the moment, and man, emerging from one World War was attempting to understand his way in the world and was disillusioned with existence. Religion, too, was supplanted by influential philosophers such as Nietzsche, and break in fall ways was conducted with the past. Modernism and post-modernism, represented by chaos, new experimental forms of style and creation, was the trend of the moment. Much of it was disjointed (as in the style of Joyce) and subversive. Contemporary themes, however, were written by writers who lived after the Second World War and were dealing with life in the modern century – in the examples given, in America. Themes included bigotry, technology, the Cold War; being a misfit, a minority, and despair at not belonging, meaninglessness of life; economic fragility; Civil Rights; and feminism. Both Modernism and Contemporary literature reflects its particular age in different ways.

¶ … Boarding House" illustrates this concept of ideologyas false conciousness operating in the lives of the characters