James Joyce Research Paper

One of the most innovative writers of the 20th century, James Joyce made his impact, through Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. James had lived through many historical events in his lifetime. He lived through World War 1, and he also lived through the beginning of World War II. That was the start of totalitarianism. Ireland also became a free state in 1922. Through all of these historical events that James lived through, he lived through some pretty powerful events in his own life. They may not have been as memorable or important as others, but they were definitely big in his life. It’s all about examining the life of, evaluate the work and examine the impact of James Joyce. James’ early life was pretty challenging to say the least. James was born …show more content…
James had a pretty good occupation. He had left Dublin in October 1904 and became an english teacher at Berlitz school in Pola. He then married Nora Barnacle, and he took her to Pola with him. They lived on that continent for the rest of their lives. They legalized their marriage in a civil ceremony on July 4, 1931. They had two children together. A son Giorgio, in 1905, and a daughter Lucia, in 1907. One of his brothers and one of his sisters lived with him also, his brother Stanislaus Joyce and his sister Eva. Stanislaus Joyce was his closest sibling and he was also known for being his biggest critic. James Joyce has six well known works as well as about 36 including those six works.. These works are Finnegans Wake,Ulysses, Dubliners, A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chamber of Music, Exiles, The Dead, Araby, Eveline, . Exiles was one of his plays that he had written and allowed to survive, it was written in 1918. By 1906 was when Dubliners came about. Dubliners was many of his short stories that he had written and later came together to make a volume. His poem Chamber of Music was brought out in 1907, it was the story of an Irish homestead in 1904, and quasi autobiographical novel Stephen Here to Trieste (Stephen Dedalus quoted in Bernard Benstock). He had thousands of pages of Stephen Hero by 1907 and he had reconstructed the scheme into A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. …show more content…
David Daiches wrote some interesting facts about his life, and threw some of his opinions out there as well. Some of the positive things he wrote in this source was, he provided a lot of information on James Joyce. This source wasn't really long but it still had enough information to know quite a bit about him. Some of the negative things would be that he didn't exactly go into detail a lot of the time. This makes it a little bit difficult to really know about James. Some of those details that he might not have had, or didn't have a lot of information on, is pretty important. Another literary critic is Ezra Pound. Ezra focuses more on what James thinks and does. A lot of what's in this critical essay is not so much about his life, but it’s more about his perspective and point of view on things. Ezra puts in “He does not believe ‘life’ would be all if we stopped vivisection or if we instituted a new sort of “economics.”’ (James Joyce, quoted in Ezra Pound). This is a good thing, because we are able to really know more about him, not just his family, job, works and so on. The only thing about this is, it’s not very long and doesn’t give out as much information as it should. (Ezra Pound) mentioned in his article about James Joyce that: He is not ploughing the underworld for horror. He is not presenting a macabre subjectivity. He is classic in that he deals with normal things and with normal people.