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James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
This article is about the writer. For other people with the same name, see James Joyce (disambiguation).
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernistavant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.
Joyce was born in Dublin into a middle-class family. He attended the Jesuit Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare, then, briefly, the Christian Brothers–run O'Connell School. Despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's un
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Biography
James Joyce, one of the most recognized and seminal figures of the Modernist movement, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. He was the oldest of Mary and John Joyce’s the ten children. Despite a secured government occupation, John Joyce’s poor financial management forced the Joyce family to move to several different homes during Joyce’s childhood as his family continued to lose affluence. Joyce was educated in Jesuit schools, a source of pride for him, first at Clongowes Wood College, then at Belvedere College, and finally at University College, Dublin, where he concentrated in modern language.
Joyce never took to the strong feelings of political fervor and nationalism that characterized his peers. Instead, he was interested in the idea of an aloof artist and became convinced that the only way to achieve his literary ambitions was through self-exile. In December 1902, Joyce left Ireland for the first time and headed to Paris. But in April of 1903 he was recalled to Ireland to visit his ailing mother. H
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by Anthony Domestico and Pericles Lewis
James Joyce (1882-1941) is a colossus of modernist fiction. He has been derided as obscene and immature and lauded as an erudite humanist; some have deemed his prose impenetrable, too concerned with artifice and verbal gamesmanship, while others have described his writing as life-affirming and always attuned to the music of language. Joyce combined stream-of-consciousness, absurdist drama, mythical parallelism, and other techniques in a formal mélange that has had a profound impact on other modernists and future generations of novelists.
Joyce was born in the Dublin suburbs in 1882 to a Roman Catholic family. His father, John Joyce, a renowned drinker, singer, and storyteller who was on a steady social decline throughout his son’s childhood, would serve as a model for Simon Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. As a young student, Joyce attended first Clongowes Wood College and then Belvedere College, both Jesuit schools. At the age of 16, Joyce rejected Catholicism; the symbols, rituals, h
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