James Joyce: Life and Works
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A 13 page paper which examines the life of James Joyce and then examines works and criticisms. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
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This 6 page report discusses Joyce’s 1916 novel and the ways in which its main character, Stephen, wrestles with the idea of becoming an artist, what an artists must be, and how an artist evolves.The questions regarding becoming an artist that Stephen deals with are similarly universal -- doubt, fearfulness, mistrust, and an almost arrogant sort of determination. No secondary sources.
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James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” and the Discovery of Language by Stephen Dedalus
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This 4 page report discusses Joyce’s novel and looks at the ways in which the main character, Stephen Dedalus, experiences language and finds the experience as both bewildering and painful. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and Challenges to the Norms of Language
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This 8 page report discusses Joyce’s 1922 epic “Ulysses” and the various events of a single day in Dublin in June of 1904, and the focus on Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and Bloom’s wife, Molly. The report demonstrates the ways in which Joyce demonstrates his ability to challenge both the norms of the English language as well as the framework of the modern novel in terms of consciousness and understanding on the part of both the story’s characters and the readers of the novel. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Jekyll & Hyde/Autobiographical Aspects
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A 5 page essay that makes the point that on the surface, there is little to connect The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to the events that make up the life of its author Robert Louis Stevenson. Jekyll was English; Stevenson was born in Scotland. Jekyll was a scientist, a doctor; Stevenson a lawyer by education and a writer by profession, and, of course, the fundamental premise of the novel, which is that Jekyll transforms into Hyde, is in the realm of science fiction. However, if one looks below the surface and consider this work for what it says about Stevenson's Victorian mindset, autobiographical aspects begin to emerge. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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John McGahern’s Literature: Ecocriticism
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An 8 page paper which examines the literature of John McGahern from an ecocrticial position. The paper examines the relationship between McGahern’s fiction and the physical environment and the relationship between the protagonists and the landscape. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”
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This 6 page report discusses Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) and his most famous work, “Gulliver’s Travels.” It is the many distortions -- size, attitude, beliefs, actions -- that serve as the greatest insight into Swift’s story and the realm in which he presents the most thought-provoking of contrasts. For example, the differences that exist in the size of the Lilliputians, the Brobdingnag, and Gulliver all have a relevant significance to the larger (pun intended) story. No secondary sources.
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Joyce & Yeats & Dublin
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A 10 page research paper based on the interesting proposition of what Yeats and Joyce might think of current day Dublin if they could return from the grave for a day. The writer discusses contemporary Dublin and makes suppositions about how Joyce and Yeats would react. Principally, the writer argues that they would be shocked by the equality achieved by women. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Joyce & Yeats /Irish Nationalism
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A 3 page research paper that considers the names Umberto Saba, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, and Michael Collins. The writer argues that as this list progresses, the biographies of each of these writers/poets demonstrates that each of these literary luminaries were progressively more involved and active in the central cause of Irish patriot Michael Collins, that is, Irish independence. Umberto Saba, for example, has only a remote connection to Collins and the Irish cause, while Irish poet W. B. Yeats was actively involved in the cause of Irish independence. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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