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1、Unit3TheSisters----JamesJoyceOutlineAbouttheauthorWarm-upquestionsTextualanalysisCriticalresponseandimpactAbouttheauthor---JamesJoyce(1882-1941)BriefIntroductionIrishwriterandpoetBornintoadecliningmiddleclassfamilyReceivedgoodeducation,buttherigidityofthereligionanditsrepresentativeeffectt
2、urnedhimawayfromthechurchtoliteratureOutspokenonimportantsocialissues,insistedonportrayingalltheaspectsofman---thegoodaswellastheevilsideThemeneverforgottopromotethespiritualfreedomofhisnativecountrywithhiswritings.Irishnationalismfeaturesprominentlyinhisworks.ThethemeofIrishdiscontentment
3、andstruggleforfreedomalwaysappearsasaclearnarrativethread.Writingtechniquesrenownedforhisadroituseofconnotativeandsymboliclanguageandvariousliterarytechniques,suchasstream-of-consciousness,epiphanyandinteriormonologue,deviatingalotfromthetraditionalwaysofplotconstructionandcharacterization
4、ImportantWorksCollectionofshortstories:Dubliners(1914)Novels:APortraitoftheArtistasaYoungMan(1916)(autobiographicalBildungsroman)Ulysses(1922)FinnegansWake(1939)Warm-upQuestionsWhydidJoycementionthewords“gnomon”and“simony”inthefirstparagraph?What’sthefunctionofseveraltimesofsilenceappearin
5、ginthetext?HowdoyouunderstandtherelationshipbetweentheboyandFatherFlynn?TextualAnalysisBackgroundinformationPlotsummaryThemeanalysisSymbolsandimagesBackgroundInformationTheSistersisashortstorybyJamesJoyce,thefirstofaseriesofshortstoriescalledDubliners.ItwasJoyce'sfirstpublishedworkoffictio
6、n.Joycelaterrevisedthestoryandhadit,alongwiththerestoftheseries,publishedinbookformin1914.ThesestoriesinDublinersformanaturalisticdepictionofIrishmiddleclasslifeinandaroundDublinintheearlyyearsofthe20thcentury.ThestorieswerewrittenwhenIrishnationalismwasatitspeak,andasearchforanationaliden
7、tityandpurposewasraging;atacrossroadsofhistoryandculture,Irelandwasjoltedbyvariousconvergingideasandinfluences.TheycentreonJoyce'sideaofanepiphany:amomentwhereacharacterexperiencesalife-changingself-understandingorillumination.Theinitialstoriesinthecollectiona
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