James-Joyce英语人物介绍ppt

JamesJoyce(1882-1941)Oneofthegiantsofthemodernage•Irishnovelistandpoet.•Oneofthemostinnovativenovelistsofthe20thcentury&oneofthegreatmastersof“thestreamofconsciousness”.•Aleadingmodernist,andoneofthegreatestinnovatorsintheEnglishlanguage.Hisliteraryachievementsandcreativityareinfluentialeventoday.JamesJoyceJoyceatagesix,1888BustofJamesJoyceinSt.Stephen'sGreen,DublinJoyce'sstatueinTriesteGraveofJamesJoyceinZurich-FlunternStatueofJamesJoyceonNorthEarlStreet,Dublin.InParis,1924.PortraitbyPatrickTuohy.JAMESJOYCE’sLifeBorninanIrishCatholicfamilyinDublin.RenouncedCatholicismatadolescence.LeftIrelandandlivedinItalyandSwitzerlandas“avoluntaryexile”.自愿流方Sufferedfromaneyediseaseandlivedallhislifeonthevergeofpoverty.MajorThemesJoyceisconcernedwiththethemesoftheartistandthenatureofartisticcreation,thehumorandtragedyofhumanlife,andalsoabouttherelationshipbetweenmindandbody,especiallywhentheauthorisattemptingtoshowallthehalf-formedthoughtsthatgothroughthecharacters’minds.HistechniquesInhiswritings,Joycelikestousereferencestoancientstoriesandadoptsacompletelynewstyleofwritingwhichallowsthereadertomoveinsidethemindsofthecharacters,andpresentstheirthoughtsandfeelingsinacontinuousdream.Thisstyleisknownas“streamofconsciousness”,andithashadapowerfulinfluenceontheworkofmanyothermodernistwriters.ChamberMusic(poems,1907)Dubliners(short-storycollection,1914)APortraitoftheArtistasaYoungMan(novel,1916)Exiles(play,1918)Ulysses(novel,1922)PomesPenyeach(verse,1927)FinnegansWake(novel,1939)Dubliners(1914):acollectionof15shortstories,allrealisticandimpressionisticstudiesoftheIrishcapital.APortraitoftheArtistasaYoungMan(1916):Joyce’ssemi-autobiographicalnovel.Ulysses(1922):anexperimentalworkbothinlanguageanddevicesofnarration.Acenterofcontroversy.Threemajorcharacters:LeopoldBloom,anIrishJew,hiswife,MarionTweedyBloom,andStephenDedalus,theprotagonist主角inAPortraitoftheArtistasaYoungMan.Itpresentarealisticpictureofthemodemwastelandinwhichmodemmenareportrayedasvulgarandtrivialcreatureswithsplittingpersonalities,disillusionedideals,sordidmindsandbrokenfamilies,whoaresearchinginvainforharmonioushumanrelationshipsandspiritualsustenanceinadecayingworld.FinnegansWake(1939):Joyce’slastnovel,wentevenfurtherinhisexperimentswithhiswritingmethod,streamofconsciousness;Fullofmixed-upsentences,wordscreatedfromotherlanguages,allusions.ThedemandthatImakeofmyreaderisthatheshoulddevotehiswholelifetoreadingmybooks