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¢ñ The background of James Joyce
James Joyce was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882, son of a talented but feckless father. ... The elder Joyce drifted steadily down the financial and social scale. ... In the early years of his life, Joyce represented a cynical attitude. ...
During his college life, James Joyce appreciated and admired the great leader of national movement, Charles Stewart Parnell. ...
In 1902, after his graduation, Joyce was already committed to a career as an exile and writer. ...
¢̣ James Joyce in the new artistic environment---the base of modernism
At the beginning of 20th century, with the enormous improvement of science and technology and the rapid development of industry, the literary modernization naturally became the focus of literators. When Joyce was in college, the western world faced with an earthshaking literary shock. ... This new literary atmosphere inspired and excited gloomy Joyce, who was despaired by introverted atmosphere of the Irish literary revival. ...
Joyce desponded because of the gloomy atmosphere of the Irish literary revival, ever proclaiming out-and-out: ¡°A nation which never advanced so far as a miracle-play affords no literary model to the artist, and he must look abroad¡± and ¡°The Irish Literary Theatre by its surrender to the trolls has cut itself adrift from the line of advancement.
Approximate Word count = 1035
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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