ISSUE OF THE DAY:
Irish Rebellion/Irish Renaissance (cont.)

 JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)
"THE DEAD" ( DUBLINERS 1914)
--Traditional Reading vs. Our Reading:
1. Gabriel Conroy: torn between cosmopolitan, liberal, high culture (England/Europe) and local, republican folk culture ( Ireland)
2. Loss of control in Empire and Patriarchy
*James Joyce in Trieste, Italy
* Trieste and Dublin
*Guglielmo Ferrero: militarism and sexual politics
--Gabriel Conroy: Self-Doubting Patriarch (2173/2241; 2175/2243)
--Molly Ivors: Enthusiastic Nationalist (2179/2247; 2180/2248)
--Gretta: Hidden history; Irish folk heritage & culture
--Music: Aunt Julia’s singing (2182/2250)
--Gabriel's conflicted speech (2188/2256): bourgeois niceties, the “great singers” of 2186/2254?
--Johnny the Horse and King Billy's Statue (2190/2259)
--Gretta and the "Lass of Aughrim"; to Gabriel = Distant Music (2192/2260)
--Michael Furey: the Living, the Dead, and the Snow (2199/2268)
Look back at these snow references too: 2193/2261, 2187/2256, 2181/2250, 2173/2241)
--“his journey westward”: Is this toward death, and if so, is this literally toward personal obliteration or metaphorically toward a past culture that gives richness to the present? Or perhaps some combination of these?