James Joyce Dubliners Flashcards

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‘every evening after school we met…and arranged Indian battles’ [An Encounter]

A

East/West divide
Education vs real life experience
Colonialisation as ‘battles’

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‘the adventures relatied in the literature fo teh Wild West were remote from my nature but, at least, they opened doors of escape’ {An Encounter]

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Colonialisation
literature
nationality

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‘real adventures do not happen to poeple who remain at home: they must be sought abroad’ [An Encounter]

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nationality
escape
writing

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‘Gallacher was only patronising him….as he was patronising Ireland by his visit’ {A Little Cloud]

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‘Patronising’ points to not just mocking, but being in a superior status in general - i.e., as a patron; the colonial English powers as dominant over the Irish (to the extent that they reinvented the traditional Irish capitalist farming model etc)

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“our country has no tradition which does it so much honour…as hospitality…a princely failing….still alive among us” [The Dead]

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tradition

nationality

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“Sometimes I fear that htis new generation, educated or hypereducated….will lack those qualities of hospitality” [The Dead]

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Revolution, modernity, multiculturalism

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;every night….I said softly to myself the word paralysis….it filled me with fear, and let I longer to be nearer to it’ [The Sisters - p1 of first book]

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Importance of location at the very start - opens with paralysis
comparable to the desire for stasis in art in POTA

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‘the thought that a poetic moment had touched him took life within him like an infant hope…it was a pity his name was not mroe Irish-looking. Perhaps it would be bettter to insert his mother’s name’ [A Little Cloud]

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Naming, nationality

Childhood and writing interlinekd! ‘infant hope’

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[of the hope to write] ‘he persued his revery so ardently that he passed his street’ [A Little Cloud[

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Missing the street reminds him of the physciality of his location - in Ireland - as opposed to his dream of escaping and writing for an international audience
entrapped in ireland

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‘He heard the strange impersonal voice he recognised as his own….we cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own’ [A Painful Case]

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Self-definition

impersonality - like art?

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;he felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this beign the burden of wisdom which age had bequeathed to him’ [A little Cloud]

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Age as not being able to struggle - importance of infancy for creativity?

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