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James Augustine Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882 and died at the age of 59 in 1941. He had three brothers and six sisters. Joyce came from a lower middle-class family which often had financial difficulties. In 1904 he met Nora Barnacle who bore him a son and a daughter and who he married in 1931. | James Augustine Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882 and died at the age of 59 in 1941. He had three brothers and six sisters. Joyce came from a lower middle-class family which often had financial difficulties. In 1904 he [[Bloomsday|met Nora Barnacle]] who bore him a son and a daughter and who he married in 1931. | ||
From 1888 to 1893 he visited Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boy's school and later on he went to Belvedere College, another Jesuit boy's day-school. In the following years Joyce studied several subjects at University College in Dublin and in 1902 he had a short enrollment at the Royal University Medical School. James Joyce was a born and bred Catholic, but his faith dwindled in the course of this life. In the year 1889 he became an altar boy and in 1895 he entered the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary. But after his death he was buried without the last rites of the Catholic Church. | From 1888 to 1893 he visited Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boy's school and later on he went to Belvedere College, another Jesuit boy's day-school. In the following years Joyce studied several subjects at University College in Dublin and in 1902 he had a short enrollment at the Royal University Medical School. James Joyce was a born and bred Catholic, but his faith dwindled in the course of this life. In the year 1889 he became an altar boy and in 1895 he entered the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary. But after his death he was buried without the last rites of the Catholic Church. | ||
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1882-1941. Novelist.
James Augustine Joyce was born in Dublin in 1882 and died at the age of 59 in 1941. He had three brothers and six sisters. Joyce came from a lower middle-class family which often had financial difficulties. In 1904 he met Nora Barnacle who bore him a son and a daughter and who he married in 1931.
From 1888 to 1893 he visited Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boy's school and later on he went to Belvedere College, another Jesuit boy's day-school. In the following years Joyce studied several subjects at University College in Dublin and in 1902 he had a short enrollment at the Royal University Medical School. James Joyce was a born and bred Catholic, but his faith dwindled in the course of this life. In the year 1889 he became an altar boy and in 1895 he entered the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary. But after his death he was buried without the last rites of the Catholic Church.
Literary Interests:
James Joyce wrote and published several provocative papers and also reviewed plays by Ibsen, a contemporary Norwegian dramatist. Joyce was in contact with the most important poets of that time: W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. He also formed a theatre group and won academic prizes for his papers in 1894 and 1897. [It is not clear, how Joyce got from being a reviewer and essayist to becoming one of the leading modernist writers. What happened?]
Works:
Chamber Music (volume of poems) (1907), Dubliners (collection of short stories) ( 1914) , A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (novel; fictional autobiography) (1914/1915), Exiles (play) (1918) , Ulysses (novel) (1922) , Finnegans Wake (novel) (1939)
Sources:
Attridge, Derek . The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Birch, Dinah. The Oxford Companion to English Literature.Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009.
Connor, Steven. James Joyce, Plymouth: Northcote House. 1996.
Joyce, James. Dubliners. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2008.