“Dubliners” is a collection of fifteen short stories written by James Joyce in which the author analyses the failure of self-realisation of inhabitants of Dublin in biographical and in psychological ways. The novel was originally turned down by publishers because they considered it immoral for its portrait of the Irish city. Joyce treats in “Dubliners” the paralysis of will in four stages: childhood, youth, maturity and public life. The paralysis of will is the courage and self-knowledge that leads ordinary men and women to accept the limitations imposed by the social context they live in. In “Dubliners” the style is both realistic - to the degree of perfectly recreating characters and idioms of contemporary Dublin - and symbolic – giving the common object unforeseen depth and a new meaning in order to show a new view of reality. Joyce defines this effect “epiphany” which indicates that moment when a simple fact suddenly explodes with meaning and makes a person realise his / her condi
The best and the most influential form of literary prose in the Middle Ages is the romance.
The romance has as subject the deeds of knights: it involves a lot of fighting, romantic love and extraordinary supernatural events.
The word romance means written in a language derived from the language of ancient Romans (Latin), in this case French was used in romances.
Medieval romance is a representation of feudal knighthood in its exterior and ethical aspects:
- exterior aspects like clothing, feasting and tournaments;
- ethical aspects like the knight's absolute duty to his God, his king and his lady.
The stories that make up the corpus of medieval romance, matters, are divided into three groups:
- the matter of France with the stories of Charlemagne;
- the matter of Britain with the stories of the Arthurian tales;
- the matter of Rome with the story of Troy and the stories of Alexander the Great.
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