Irish Independence -- Joel, Jessica and Dorian

James Joyce and Araby

To start you off because James Joyce wrote in a stream of consciousness writing i will give you the term at the back of the book:

Stream of Consciousness: narrative techniques that attempts to convey in prose fiction a sense of the progression of the full range of thoughts and sensations occurring within a characters mind. Twentieth-century pioneers in the use of the stream of consciousness writing include Dorothy Richardson, Virgina Woolf and James Joyce.

- James Joyce is a well known Irish Novelist who redefined realism
- James Joyce grew up in a middle class family only later to fall to poverty due to having an alcoholic father
- His mother played a large role in his life by showing him the pleasures of art and Catholicism
- Later while at school James became very cynical of the church and believed Religion among other things to be a distraction for the budding artist
- He is best known for Ulysses a modern day retelling of The Odyssey
-Each chapter is an ironic rewriting of a chapter from Homer's Odyssey
-It is said that his book Ulysses can sum up the entire Modernist movement in writing

Wikipedia is a great place to get an over view of his life if you're interested in looking in more detail at his life and his works

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_joyce

Araby

- Araby is a Charity bazaar held in Dublin in 1894
- It is another of his works that deals with the Stream of Consciousness writing style that James Joyce Develops and perfects
-The story discusses themes of coming of age and the loss of innocence
-In Joyce's life it said that he became cynical of the church one of the first things in this story that happens is a priest dies
- not only does this priest die but in his room not only are there good and religious books there are also books about criminals among other things
- The story is told by a narrator of which we know nothing really about not even a name
- We know the narrator is a boy who is still attending school so he must be fairly young
- There is a lot of imagery in the story, and is told through the boy's observations
- In the short story there is reference to a number of literary works