week8-James Joyce’s Araby#
I. Essay writing (c.f. week 2-5)
II. James Joyce’s “Araby”
*James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922) Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914).
*Dubliners (spark notes) (grade saver)
* “Araby” (wiki) (spark notes) (e-note) (shmoop) (text)
A short story in Dubliners
*Retreat 避靜 (wiki) (Catholic things)
Retreats are an integral part of the Catholic faith. It is healthy to get away from everyday life, rest, and renew your faith regularly.
Epiphany (holiday)à主顯節 (wiki) ; (feeling)à頓悟 (wiki)
(Joyce’s Epiphany) (lit.) (jamesjoyce)
An epiphany is an experience of sudden and striking realization.
(Araby’s overheard)
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Remembering with difficulty why I had come, I went over to one of the stalls and examined porcelain vases and flowered tea-sets. At the door of the stall a young lady was talking and laughing with two young gentlemen. I remarked their English accents and listened vaguely to their conversation. 'O, I never said such a thing!' 'O, but you did!' 'O, but I didn't!' 'Didn't she say that?' 'Yes. I heard her.' 'O, there's a... fib!' (無關痛癢的小謊 Observing me, the young lady came over and asked me did I wish to buy anything. The tone of her voice was not encouraging; she seemed to have spoken to me out of a sense of duty. I looked humbly at the great jars that stood like eastern guards at either side of the dark entrance to the stall and murmured: 'No, thank you.' The young lady changed the position of one of the vases and went back to the two young men. They began to talk of the same subject. Once or twice the young lady glanced at me over her shoulder. I lingered before her stall, though I knew my stay was useless, to make my interest in her wares seem the more real. Then I turned away slowly and walked down the middle of the bazaar. I allowed the two pennies to fall against the sixpence in my pocket. I heard a voice call from one end of the gallery that the light was out. The upper part of the hall was now completely dark. Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.( 氣自己的無知 |
* Bazaar (wiki)
Give coin (foreshadowing) = give coin to Caron the ferryman by the River Styx
Deathà heart, innocent
A bazaar is a word used in the Middle East for an open-air marketplace or commercial quarter.
*Initiation (initiation journeyà a journey of no return
(wiki) is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. It could also be a formal admission to adulthood in a community or one of its formal components. In an extended sense it can also signify a transformation in which the initiate is 'reborn' into a new role. Examples of initiation ceremonies might include Hindu diksha, Christian baptism or confirmation, Jewish bar or bat mitzvah, acceptance into a fraternal organization, secret society or religious order, or graduation from school or recruit training.
àcommencement (*commence begin) =graduation ceremony; hooding ceremony
Graduation ceremony
Hooding ceremony: A Hooding Ceremony is a special recognition ceremony for doctoral degree candidates, during which a faculty advisor and the Dean of Graduate Academics place the doctoral hood, signifying his or her success in completing the graduate program. The ceremony is similar to a graduation in that the faculty and students are dressed in academic attire. The Hooding Ceremony is in addition to and does not replace the Graduate Commencement.
* The Holy Grail / Chalice(wiki)
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