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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,Unit 3The Sisters,-James Joyce,Outline,About the author,Warm,-,up questions,Textual analysis,Critical response and impact,About the author-James Joyce,(1882-1941),Brief Introduction,Irish writer and poet,Born into a declining middle class family,Received good education,but the rigidity of the religion and its representative effect turned him away from the church to literature,Outspoken on important social issues,insisted on portraying all the aspects of man-the good as well as the evil side,Theme,never forgot to promote the spiritual freedom of his native country with his writings.,Irish nationalism,features prominently in his works,.,T,he theme of,Irish discontentment,and,struggle for freedom,always appears as a clear narrative thread.,Writing techniques,renowned for his adroit use of connotative and symbolic language and various literary techniques,such as,stream-of-consciousness,epiphany,and,interior monologue,deviating a lot from the traditional ways of,plot construction,and,characterization,Important Works,Collection of short stories:,Dubliners,(1914),Novels:,A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,(,1916,),(autobiographical Bildungsroman),Ulysses,(1922),Finnegans Wake,(,1939,),Warm-up Questions,Why did Joyce mention the words“gnomon and“simony in the first paragraph?,Whats the function of several times of silence appearing in the text?,How do you understand the relationship between the boy and Father Flynn?,Textual Analysis,Background,information,Plot,summary,Theme analysis,Symbols and images,Background Information,The Sisters,is a short story by James Joyce,the first of a series of short stories called,Dubliners,.,It,was Joyces first published work of fiction.Joyce later revised the story and had it,along with the rest of the series,published in book form in 1914.,Th,ese stories in,Dubliners,form a naturalistic depiction of,Irish middle class life in and around Dublin,in the early years of the 20th century.,The stories were written when,Irish nationalism,was at its peak,and a search for a,national identity and purpose,was raging;at a crossroads of history and culture,Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.They centre on Joyces idea of an,epiphany,:a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination.,The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists,and as the stories continue,they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people.This is in line with Joyces tripartite division of the collection into childhood,adolescence and maturity.,?都柏林人?一书由十五个中短篇小说组成，为尽可能真实全面的展示都柏林人的精神世界，分别分为少年、青年、成年和社会生活场景四个局部。其中作为开头第一篇的?姐妹俩?属于少年时期。,Plot Summary,The Sisters gives a portrait of,the relationship between a nameless boy and the infirm priest Father Flynn,.The priest who has been relieved of his priestly duties has acted as a mentor for the boy in the clerical duties of a Catholic priest.The story starts with the boy contemplating Father Flynns illness and impending death.He is fascinated with interpreting signs and symbols,and their meaning.Later,while the boy eats his dinner,his aunt,uncle,and old Cotter have a conversation in which the boy is informed that the priest has died.The conversation focuses on the priest and his relationship with the boy.,That night the boy is haunted by images of the priest,and he dreams of escape to a mysterious land.The next day the boy goes to look at the announcement that the priest has died,and then wanders about,further puzzling about his dream and about his relationship with the priest.That night the boy and his aunt go to the house of mourning.They view the corpse with Nannie,and then they sit with the sisters Eliza and Nannie.They are offered food and drink,and then Eliza and the aunt carry on a conversation that reveals that Father Flynn had apparently suffered a mental breakdown after accidentally breaking a chalice.The dialogue then trails off.,Theme Analysis,This is a simple story about trivialities of common peoples daily life in Dublin.It tells a story about a boys feeling about a boys feeling,thinking and doing after he heard that his best friend,an old priest,died of paralytic.,The story reflects the influence of traditional thinking mode of words on people,especially their thinking world.,?姐妹俩?讲述了一位神父弗林死于“瘫痪，可随着阅读的深入我们会发现神父并非死于肉体上的“瘫痪而是死于精神上的“瘫痪；“精神瘫痪在?都柏林人?一书中贯穿始终，因为在乔伊斯看来整个都柏林就是一个“瘫痪的中心。,From the numerous flashbacks and memories scattered through the story,Father Flynn is shown to have been an intellectual priest,trained in Rome and having a strong religious vocation,but unable to cope with the mundane daily routine of being a parish priest-which finally led to his collapse.The boy narrator is seen to have initially admired Father Flynn and looked up to him,and later felt deeply sorry for him and guilty about not having visited him in h
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