opinion is of immense literary value and offers us not just a character study of an idealistic‚ haunted young man‚ but a very real analysis of the world we live in‚ a world that is steadily failing us‚ hour by hour‚ minute by minute. Works Cited Bloom‚ Harold.
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The literary works of Irish writer James Joyce are perhaps the most studied‚ argued and admired of all modern classics. Joyce‚ who was born near Dublin in 1882‚ was the eldest son in an impoverished‚ middle-class family. Educated by Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College‚ Belvedere College in Dublin‚ and University College‚ he majored in philosophy and literature. He exiled himself from Ireland in 1904 and moved to Trieste where he taught English at the Berlitz School from 1905 to 1915. His love of language
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such as ranges of purple mountain‚ snowy peak‚ green forests and prairies‚ the far-reaching spaces of blue oceans and colourful seashells‚ flowing yellowish rivers‚ the twittering sounds of birds and beasts with their mates‚ colourful flowers in bloom‚ and so forth. In my view the beauty of nature has always stimulated awareness that we have to preserve our environment to preserve this beauty. Today this beauty is rapidly vanishing; mega cities have replaced many beautiful landscapes and this
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AN IMAGE OF AFRICA / 1783 BIBLIOGRAPHY Called "the father of the Afdcan novel‚" Chinua Achebe is best known for his fiction foregrounding the political struggles of Nigeria. His novels to date are Things Fall .\part (I 958)‚ No LOllger at Ease (I 960)‚ Arrow of God (1964)‚ A Man of the People ( 1966)‚ and Atlthills of tT‚e Sc‚.vamlah (I987). He has also published two short story collections‚ an award-winning volume of poetry‚ four works of juvenile literature‚ and four edited collections
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Wole Soyinka’s A Shuttle in the Crypt contemplates a critical period in Nigerian history between 1966 and early 1971. Soyinka’s efforts to curtail the Nigerian Civil War in 1967 resulted in his arrest and imprisonment without trial by the federal military government. Soyinka’s work remains inseparable from his activities as a political dissident. His commitment to promoting human rights in Nigeria and other nations reflects his new approach to literature as a serious agent of social change. A Shuttle
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Cited: Barnet‚ Sylvan‚ Morton Berman‚ and William Burto‚ eds. An Introduction to Literature. Boston; Little and Brown‚ 1973. Bergonzi‚ Bernard. T. S. Eliot. New York: The Macmillan Company‚ 1964. Bloom‚ Harold‚ ed. Modern Critical Views - T. S. Eliot. New York: Chelsea House Publishers‚ 1985. Damrosch‚ Leopold‚ et al‚ eds. Adventures in English Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich‚ 1980. Eliot T. S. T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems: 1909-1962. New York: Harcourt‚ Brace and World‚ 1936. Kermode
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Another would be Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce which has a character called Leopold bloom that parallel Odyssues who also falls into a human struggle by trying to maintain his dignity in what he believes to be noble. In conclusion‚ myths such as the ones created by Homer represent human themes and they clearly shape contemporary literature
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of a novel‚ both Ulysses and Mrs. Dalloway take place in the course of a single day. In both works we dart in and out of the consciousness of many characters‚ but reside primarily within two in each. In Ulysses these are Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom and in Mrs. Dalloway they are Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith. But the main borrowing I’d like to focus on for a moment is structural. Because it is her adaptation of one of Joyce’s innovations in structure that shows one of the marvelous
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James Augustine[1] Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet‚ considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922)‚ a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer ’s Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles‚ perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he perfected. Other major works are the short-story collection
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The Development of the ‘Stream-of-Consciousness’ Technique in Modernist English Fiction (with Special Reference to the Contributions of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf) Arpan Adhikary The term ‘stream of consciousness’ as applied in literary criticism to designate a particular mode of prose narrative was first coined by philosopher William James in his book Principles of Psychology (1890) to describe the uninterrupted flow of perceptions‚ memories and thoughts in active human psyche. As a literary
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