Essay on "The Boarding Hous", by James Joyce: A well-orchestrated "human comedy"
Date de publication :
03/06/2008
Langue :
Anglais
Format :
.doc
Nombre de pages :
7 pages
Sommaire :
Sommaire
- A polyphonic narrative
- A feigned objective 'expository'
- A three voice play
- The reported speech
- ...In the service of a social satire
- A diatribe against social, financial and moral conventions
- ...that lead to the confinement
- From naturalism to symbolism
- A realistic narrative
- « Art is both surface and symbol » (Oscar Wilde)
Résumé :
« the boarding house »: Study the most interesting aspects of joyce's narrative technique in this short story.
joyce(1882-1941)'s short story « the boarding house » was published in the Dubliners, a collection of stories set in the 'paralyzed' town of Dublin. the tale, in which Polly Mooney, the housekeeper's daughter, is involved with one of the boarders, a clerk in his mid-thirties named Mr. Doran, belongs to the stories that deal about adolescence.
the technical innovations -especially an extensive use of interior monologue- of joyce, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as Ulysses (1922), appear in « the boarding house ». the main interest of this short-story- the first story in Dubliners told from more than one perspective-lies in the apparently simple narrative technique.
In first instance, let us examine the polyphony of the narrative, that-is-to say the way in which the narrator ironically juxtaposes the viewpoints of/about the protagonists through the streams of consciousness and the reported speech. Then, we will try to show how the narrative technique serves a social satire that aims at underlining the social, financial, oral obstacles that paralyze the characters. Finally, we will study joyce's hybrid style, between naturalism and symbolism.
joyce(1882-1941)'s short story « the boarding house » was published in the Dubliners, a collection of stories set in the 'paralyzed' town of Dublin. the tale, in which Polly Mooney, the housekeeper's daughter, is involved with one of the boarders, a clerk in his mid-thirties named Mr. Doran, belongs to the stories that deal about adolescence.
the technical innovations -especially an extensive use of interior monologue- of joyce, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as Ulysses (1922), appear in « the boarding house ». the main interest of this short-story- the first story in Dubliners told from more than one perspective-lies in the apparently simple narrative technique.
In first instance, let us examine the polyphony of the narrative, that-is-to say the way in which the narrator ironically juxtaposes the viewpoints of/about the protagonists through the streams of consciousness and the reported speech. Then, we will try to show how the narrative technique serves a social satire that aims at underlining the social, financial, oral obstacles that paralyze the characters. Finally, we will study joyce's hybrid style, between naturalism and symbolism.
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