Seminar Week 1 04/02/2020
INTRODUCTION / A PAINFUL CASE
Assessment
- Leadership
- Tuesday: close reading and one other short story or short text (announced Thursday
before the leadership)
- Thursday: based of the lecture and secondary sources mentioned in the lecture.
- Close Reading
- “The Sisters,” “An Encounter,” “Eveline,” “Counterparts,” “Grace,” or “The Dead.”
- Interpretation of short story
- Simulated thesis
Joyce
- He had a hypersensitivity to sounds, he had the extraordinary ability to recall words and
phrases like photographically.
- Urban environment is portrayed as a sort of paralysis.
- People are stuck in being able to say what they want.
- Joyce is better read than re-read.
- Great writers were the only way you could truly record and represent the world we live in.
- Writing is today competing with social media.
Dubliners
- Childhood
- The Sisters
- After the priest Father Flynn dies a young boy who was close to him and his family
deal with it only superficially. The events force him to examine their relationship and
cause him yo see himself as an individual for the first time
- Coming to a moment of truth / epiphany
- An Encounter
- Two Schoolboys playing truant from school encounter an elderly man who turns
out to be a pervert
- Araby
- A boy falls in love with the sister of his best friend but fails in his quest to buy her a
worthy gift from the araby bazaar. Becomes beware of the dangers of the adult
world.
- Adolescence
- Eveline
- Young woman who abandons her plans to leave Ireland with a sailor and faces
instead the prospect of remaining with her abusive father in order to help raise her
younger siblings
- After the race
- College student jimmy Doyle tries to fit in with his wealthy friends and fails
- Framed by motor race that took place in ireland, gordon bennett cup 1903.
- Two gallants
- Two con men lineman and Corley, find a maid who is willing to steal from her
employer
- Title is iconic
- The Boarding house
- Mrs mooney successfully manoeuvres her daughter polly into an upwardly mobile
marriage with her lodger Mr Doran
- Adult
- A Little cloud
- Little chandler is having dinner with his old friend ihnatius Gallagher casts fresh
light on his own failed literary dreams. The story reflects also on chandler’s mood
upon realising his baby son has replaced him as the centre of his wife’s affections.
- Counterparts
1
, - Farrington, a lumbering alcoholic Irish scrivener takes out his frustration pubs and
on his son tom.
- Clay
- The old maid Maria, a laundress, celebrates halloween with her former foster child
Joe Donnelly and his family.
- A painful case
- Mr duffy rebuffs mrs sinico then four years layer realises he has condemned her to
loneliness and death.
- Public life
- Ivy Day
- Minor Irish politicians fail to live up to the memory of Charles Stewart Parnell.
- A Mother
- Mrs Kearney tries to win a place of pride for her daughter Kathleen in the Irish
cultural movement by starring her in a series of concerts but ultimately fails.
- Grace
- After mr Kerman injures himself falling down the stairs in a bar, his friends try to
reform hum through catholicism
- The Dead
- Gabriel Conroy attends a party his wife has an epiphany about the nature of life
and death.
- Made into a film in 1982.
- There are elements that are familiar to Joyce
- His wife, like Joyce’s came from the farmland.
- The deadness of society.
History
- It took Joyce 9 years to get Dubliners published; he has a too high sense of his own
importance / publishing Joyce was seen as a risk.
- His short stories are like short dramatic plays.
- Joyce’s hero was Norwegian dramatist Epson, who also wrote about the haunting /
morbid feeling of the past.
- “History is a nightmare from which I’m trying to wake up.”
- The Sisters —> narrator remembers the death of his closest friend, a priest. The boy
struggles to understand the priest’s nature.
- Traumatic experience.
- Joyce had a traumatic youth —> his father was an alcoholic.
- What binds these revolutions father’s (Joyce, Dickens, Shakespeare) together
is that they had horrible fathers who spent all family money and get
themselves deep into debt.
- Title is confusing, why is it called the sisters?
- Not being able to understand the past, trying to comprehend it is paralysing.
- Being aware of the damage of the past.
- Parnell
- He wanted an independent Irish parliament, but did not oppose British occupation.
- He was the person who could unite everyone in Ireland, but due to his adulterous affair
he was “thrown to the wolves.”
Eveline
- Eveline has to choose between two parts of the past —> brutality of the father vs
remembering the good things.
- It’s usually the women who try to hold things together in Joyce.
- Joyce had a bad memory / view of men.
- She’s struggling to remember her father’s kindnesses.
- Involuntary memory is triggered by the music.
- She remembers the horror of her mother’s death and she fears that something is going
to happen to her in Buenos Aires.
A Painful Case
Why does Joyce present the context in a newspaper article?
2
INTRODUCTION / A PAINFUL CASE
Assessment
- Leadership
- Tuesday: close reading and one other short story or short text (announced Thursday
before the leadership)
- Thursday: based of the lecture and secondary sources mentioned in the lecture.
- Close Reading
- “The Sisters,” “An Encounter,” “Eveline,” “Counterparts,” “Grace,” or “The Dead.”
- Interpretation of short story
- Simulated thesis
Joyce
- He had a hypersensitivity to sounds, he had the extraordinary ability to recall words and
phrases like photographically.
- Urban environment is portrayed as a sort of paralysis.
- People are stuck in being able to say what they want.
- Joyce is better read than re-read.
- Great writers were the only way you could truly record and represent the world we live in.
- Writing is today competing with social media.
Dubliners
- Childhood
- The Sisters
- After the priest Father Flynn dies a young boy who was close to him and his family
deal with it only superficially. The events force him to examine their relationship and
cause him yo see himself as an individual for the first time
- Coming to a moment of truth / epiphany
- An Encounter
- Two Schoolboys playing truant from school encounter an elderly man who turns
out to be a pervert
- Araby
- A boy falls in love with the sister of his best friend but fails in his quest to buy her a
worthy gift from the araby bazaar. Becomes beware of the dangers of the adult
world.
- Adolescence
- Eveline
- Young woman who abandons her plans to leave Ireland with a sailor and faces
instead the prospect of remaining with her abusive father in order to help raise her
younger siblings
- After the race
- College student jimmy Doyle tries to fit in with his wealthy friends and fails
- Framed by motor race that took place in ireland, gordon bennett cup 1903.
- Two gallants
- Two con men lineman and Corley, find a maid who is willing to steal from her
employer
- Title is iconic
- The Boarding house
- Mrs mooney successfully manoeuvres her daughter polly into an upwardly mobile
marriage with her lodger Mr Doran
- Adult
- A Little cloud
- Little chandler is having dinner with his old friend ihnatius Gallagher casts fresh
light on his own failed literary dreams. The story reflects also on chandler’s mood
upon realising his baby son has replaced him as the centre of his wife’s affections.
- Counterparts
1
, - Farrington, a lumbering alcoholic Irish scrivener takes out his frustration pubs and
on his son tom.
- Clay
- The old maid Maria, a laundress, celebrates halloween with her former foster child
Joe Donnelly and his family.
- A painful case
- Mr duffy rebuffs mrs sinico then four years layer realises he has condemned her to
loneliness and death.
- Public life
- Ivy Day
- Minor Irish politicians fail to live up to the memory of Charles Stewart Parnell.
- A Mother
- Mrs Kearney tries to win a place of pride for her daughter Kathleen in the Irish
cultural movement by starring her in a series of concerts but ultimately fails.
- Grace
- After mr Kerman injures himself falling down the stairs in a bar, his friends try to
reform hum through catholicism
- The Dead
- Gabriel Conroy attends a party his wife has an epiphany about the nature of life
and death.
- Made into a film in 1982.
- There are elements that are familiar to Joyce
- His wife, like Joyce’s came from the farmland.
- The deadness of society.
History
- It took Joyce 9 years to get Dubliners published; he has a too high sense of his own
importance / publishing Joyce was seen as a risk.
- His short stories are like short dramatic plays.
- Joyce’s hero was Norwegian dramatist Epson, who also wrote about the haunting /
morbid feeling of the past.
- “History is a nightmare from which I’m trying to wake up.”
- The Sisters —> narrator remembers the death of his closest friend, a priest. The boy
struggles to understand the priest’s nature.
- Traumatic experience.
- Joyce had a traumatic youth —> his father was an alcoholic.
- What binds these revolutions father’s (Joyce, Dickens, Shakespeare) together
is that they had horrible fathers who spent all family money and get
themselves deep into debt.
- Title is confusing, why is it called the sisters?
- Not being able to understand the past, trying to comprehend it is paralysing.
- Being aware of the damage of the past.
- Parnell
- He wanted an independent Irish parliament, but did not oppose British occupation.
- He was the person who could unite everyone in Ireland, but due to his adulterous affair
he was “thrown to the wolves.”
Eveline
- Eveline has to choose between two parts of the past —> brutality of the father vs
remembering the good things.
- It’s usually the women who try to hold things together in Joyce.
- Joyce had a bad memory / view of men.
- She’s struggling to remember her father’s kindnesses.
- Involuntary memory is triggered by the music.
- She remembers the horror of her mother’s death and she fears that something is going
to happen to her in Buenos Aires.
A Painful Case
Why does Joyce present the context in a newspaper article?
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