Introduction to European Culture
INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN CULTURE
Gas from a burner
I. Influence on the work
James Joyce is born on February 2nd, 1882 in Rathgar, a suburb of the South of Dublin, in a catholic family. The exuberant and unstable personality of his father, John Joyce, alternately medical student, champion of rowing, singer, comedian, politics fanatic, secretary, worker and tax inspector, big drinker, contrasts with her mother, Mary Jane Murray, especially worried to stay up her lodging house and her thirteen children. This family sees its financial difficulties deteriorating during the years. Between bankruptcy and redundancy, John Joyce obliges his family to move about fifteen times in a few years: with the father’s actions they have lost so many degrees in the social scale and continued to decrease. It is on this bottom of social decline that is made Joyce’s education. In 1888, James’ father sends him to the Jesuit middle school of Clongowes Wood and Joyce soon excels at religious education, English composition, mathematics, in the running and cricket.
From this moment, and in spite of the big interest that he shows to the religion, the anticlerical jokes of his father bring him to ask themselves questions, which he brings back to us in Dedalus, on the order and the justice that embody his Jesuit teachers. The end of year 1891 is marked by new financial difficulties for John Joyce, which entails the retreat of James de Clongowes Wood.
After two years, studying alone, James enters because of a favour the middle school Belvedere of Dublin, where he obtains remarkable results. At the same time, the double break with his family and with the religious education is going to become clearer and develop the young Joyce in the direction of a bigger and bigger responsibility in front of the transgression that announces as inevitable. When he was fourteen, at the same time as an unformulated questioning of its religious faith, he asserts its faith in the art. James is
Gas from a burner
I. Influence on the work
James Joyce is born on February 2nd, 1882 in Rathgar, a suburb of the South of Dublin, in a catholic family. The exuberant and unstable personality of his father, John Joyce, alternately medical student, champion of rowing, singer, comedian, politics fanatic, secretary, worker and tax inspector, big drinker, contrasts with her mother, Mary Jane Murray, especially worried to stay up her lodging house and her thirteen children. This family sees its financial difficulties deteriorating during the years. Between bankruptcy and redundancy, John Joyce obliges his family to move about fifteen times in a few years: with the father’s actions they have lost so many degrees in the social scale and continued to decrease. It is on this bottom of social decline that is made Joyce’s education. In 1888, James’ father sends him to the Jesuit middle school of Clongowes Wood and Joyce soon excels at religious education, English composition, mathematics, in the running and cricket.
From this moment, and in spite of the big interest that he shows to the religion, the anticlerical jokes of his father bring him to ask themselves questions, which he brings back to us in Dedalus, on the order and the justice that embody his Jesuit teachers. The end of year 1891 is marked by new financial difficulties for John Joyce, which entails the retreat of James de Clongowes Wood.
After two years, studying alone, James enters because of a favour the middle school Belvedere of Dublin, where he obtains remarkable results. At the same time, the double break with his family and with the religious education is going to become clearer and develop the young Joyce in the direction of a bigger and bigger responsibility in front of the transgression that announces as inevitable. When he was fourteen, at the same time as an unformulated questioning of its religious faith, he asserts its faith in the art. James is