James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer’s Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake.
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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer’s Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake. His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism. Joyce was born in Dublin into a middle-class family. He briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O’Connell School before excelling at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father’s unpredictable finances. In 1904, in his early twenties, Joyce emigrated to continental Europe with his partner Nora Barnacle. Although most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce’s fictional universe centres on Dublin and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there. He suffered from astraphobia; a superstitious aunt had described thunderstorms as a sign of God’s wrath. In 1891 Joyce wrote a poem on the death of Charles Stewart Parnell. The Vatican’s role in allying with the British Conservative Party to prevent Home Rule left a lasting impression on the young Joyce.
In 1895, Joyce, aged 13, was elected to join the Sodality of Our Lady, Our Lady in Dublin. He was the eldest of ten surviving siblings; two died of typhoid. His father was John Stanislaus Joyce and his mother was Mary Jane \”May\” Murray. Joyce’s godparents were Philip and Ellen McCann. The Joyce family’s purported ancestor, Seán Mór Seoighe was a stonemason from Connemara. The elder Joyce had the poem printed and even sent a part to the Vatican Library. In November, 1892, John Joyce was entered in Stubbs’ Gazette and suspended from work. In 1893, he was dismissed with a pension, beginning the family’s slide into poverty caused mainly by his drinking and financial mismanagement. Joyce then studied at his boarding boarding school, Richmond School on North Street, Dublin, before he was offered a place in the Dublin Jesuits’ school, Belveere College, in 1893. This came about because of a meeting his father had with a Jesuit priest called John Conmee who knew the family and Joyce was given a reduction in fees to attend Belvesere. In 1995, Joyce enrolled at the University College Dublin, where he became a professor of philosophy. In the particular is contained the universal. Joyce’s father was angry at the treatment of Parnel by the Catholic Church, the Irish Home Rule Party and the British Liberal Party.
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