Exiles A Play In Three Acts


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"Exiles," written by James Joyce, is a play that unfolds in 3 acts, showcasing Joyce's exceptional literary fashion and exploration of complex human relationships. Set against the backdrop of Dublin, a metropolis with profound significance in Joyce's works, the play delves into the intricacies of affection, preference, and the results of private choices. The narrative revolves around Richard Rowan, a writer, and his wife Bertha, who stay in self-imposed exile in Italy. The title "Exiles" indicates a subject matter of displacement, both physical and emotional, as the characters grapple with the effects in their choices. Richard's go back to Dublin prompts a reunion along with his friends, developing a disturbing atmosphere as past relationships and buried feelings resurface. Joyce's exploration of psychological depth and elaborate dialogue is in all likelihood to signify "Exiles." The play may additionally delve into the complexities of affection and constancy, challenging societal norms and moral expectancies. The characters might also confront the results in their choices and grapple with the complexities of human connection. As with plenty of Joyce's paintings, "Exiles" is anticipated to be rich in symbolism and layered meanings, inviting readers to resolve the intricacies of the characters' motivations and the broader remark on human nature.




Exiles


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Exiles


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'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...' Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his common-law wife Bertha, characters drawn from Joyce's own life with Nora Barnacle. After a decade of absence from Dublin, Richard and Bertha have returned home from Rome, still unmarried, with their young son Archie. Richard hopes that he will be greeted as a returning genius and rewarded with a comfortable university position. But this aspiration ends up taking a back seat to the erotic crisis that is unleashed by the couple's return to the place where they first met, and their encounters with two old flames and friends. In this play, Joyce revisits his own agonizing feelings of jealousy that were precipitated by similar trips home to Dublin. In the introduction and notes, Keri Walsh provides a comprehensive look issues of gender, sexuality, and performance as well as considering the nationalist and sectarian contexts of Dublin in 1912, the year of the play's setting.




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Bulletin [1908-23]


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Fragments of the Feminine Sublime in Friedrich Schlegel and James Joyce


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This is the first book to extensively study Joyce's work in the context of Germanic Romantic literary theory. It illustrates how Joyce's modern and postmodern innovation of the novel finds its theoretical roots in Friedrich Schlegel's conception of the Romantic, fragmentary novel. Verstraete discusses the relevance of Schlegel's early Romanticism to the young Joyce's essays on symbolic-realistic drama and argues that what has traditionally been described as Joyce's personal appropriation of Hegel's dialectics can better be understood in terms of Schlegel's ironic approach to philosophy. She relates Schlegel's concepts of irony and of the fragment to his feminist critique of nineteenth-century bourgeois art, and of Kant's categories of the beautiful and the sublime. She argues that Schlegel's ironization of the sublime yields a rhetorical subversion of the opposition between male artist and female model, art and reality, as well as between the sublime and the beautiful. Verstraete illustrates this critical and political force of what she calls the "feminine sublime" at work in Schlegel's essays on Greek comedy and in his novel Lucinde. The book demonstrates how the Romantic (feminine) sublime, as the site where autonomous art generates its own critique, offers us the tools with which to interpret Joyce's postmodern innovations of Romantic art.