“Golden Gloves” Joyce Carol Oates’ story “Golden Gloves”‚ is about a premature seven month old baby who born with deformed feet‚ the tiny arches twisted‚ and his toe turned inward like fleshy claws. When he was three years old he learned to walk because he could not work. His face is misshape and look like an adult. His parents feel embarrass because he was handicapped. Height years later after he was born he had a surgery on his feet. When his father took him to a boxing match he felt in love with
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"The Sisters"‚ "Araby" and "an Encounter" These three short stories are from James Joyce’s "Dubliners"‚ first published in 1914. The short stories are meant to be a naturalistic description of the Irish middleclass living in Dublin‚ around 1900. "The Sisters" tells about a nameless boy and his relationship with a‚ now dead‚ priest‚ Father Flynn. The priest acted as a mentor for the boy. The story starts with the boy pondering over Father Flynn’s illness. Later he learns that the priest is dead
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Araby James Joyce‚ an icon of the modernist era had many works that were moving away from the classical styles of literature put before him. Joyce is known for leading his characters towards some kind of personal insight and on the surface‚ Araby seems to be only about a boy learning about the truth of capitalism. As you dive deep in to his words and meaning however‚ it is apparent that Joyce’s message is not as black and white as it appears on the surface. This story is also about the relationship
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James Kelman’ s “A Disaffection”‚ published in 1989‚ is set in Glasgow and written in the dialect characteristic for the city. The book proves difficult to translate not only because of the setting’s influence on its language‚ but also the style it was written in. Kelman uses stream of consciousness here‚ making ‘retelling’ it in Polish a deeply confusing process. The fragment regarded depicts our hero‚ Patrick Doyle‚ driving‚ caught between real life and fantasy. Naturally‚ one wants to make the
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a quite different way) in itself. Regardless of a hasty opinion recounted in a diary (often seen as snobbish‚ but more likely simply piqued‚ provoked‚ and annoyed) Ms. Woolf certainly seems to have employed some of the devices and methods that Joyce introduced in Ulysses. Contrary to the normal course 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
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A Widow’s Story is a memoir of Joyce Carol Oates‚ dedicated to her late husband Raymond Smith. This book was gripping from the very start‚ I felt like I was getting to know Oates more as a person‚ instead of just the author to literature read for the class. Oates husband of forty-seven year of marriage passed away from a secondary infection; acquired during his hospital stay for treatment of pneumonia. She takes us on this journey with her from the beginning with the ER visit she took with Ray‚ when
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Joyce’s Araby begins as a story about a young boy and his first love‚ his neighbor referred to in the story as Mangan’s sister. However‚ the young boy soon turns his innocent love and curiosity into a much more intense desire‚ transforming this female and his journey to the bazaar into something much more intense and lustful. From the beginning‚ Joyce paints a picture of the neighborhood in which the boy lives as very dark and cold. Even the rooms within his house are described as unfriendly‚ "Air
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Araby The setting of Araby is described within the first three small paragraphs; it conveys very vivid imagery as you would see it in the eyes of a young boy‚ noticing details of colors and textures of his surroundings. You soon get a sense of the narrator’s simple minded thinking as he is only a young boy. Going into the adolescent years‚ the narrator experiences new emotions and finds himself an immense love interest in his friend’s sister who lives down the street. As he spends much of his time
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Background Combining the unities of classical theatre and the style of Shakespearean drama‚ Dryden creates an elaborately formal production in which fashionable philosophies of the time could be discussed and debated in a public atmosphere. Dryden used the theatre as a forum for testing problematic philosophical‚ moral and political questions. The results of these investigations were to form the basis of his later works. The original 1677 production by the King’s Company starred Charles Hart as
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James Joyce‚ The Dead from “Dubliners” «[…] He thought of how she who lay beside him had locked in her heart for so many years that image of her lover’s eyes when he had told her that he did not wish to live.» James Joyce (Dublin‚ February 1882 – Zurich‚ Jenuary 1941) is an Irish writer who has depicted Dublin in his collection of short stories “Dubliners” (London‚ 1914)‚ and who has revolutioned narrative style and techinques with his mature work “Ulysses” (Paris‚ 1922). Even though Joyce
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