摘 要

詹姆斯·乔伊斯的短篇小说集《都柏林人》描绘了19世纪末20世纪初都柏林中下层人民形形色色的生活，揭示了当时社会中的瘫痪和麻痹的现状。为着力反映人物的精神世界，乔伊斯运用了一种新颖的创作技巧“顿悟”。本文选取其中的三篇小说来具体分析作者是如何运用“顿悟”这一手法来突出主题的。

关键词：詹姆斯·乔伊斯；《都柏林人》；顿悟

Contents

1. Introduction..............................................................................................................3

2. Demonstration...........................................................................................................3

2.1Disillusionment of Child: epiphany in “Araby”.......................................................3

2.1.1 Manifestation of epiphany: a bazaar.....................................................................5

2.1.2 Significance of epiphany......................................................................................6

2.2 Powerlessness of Adult: epiphany in “A Little Cloud”...........................................6

2.2.1 Manifestation of epiphany: two epiphanies.........................................................8

2.2.2 Significance of epiphany......................................................................................8

2.3 Paralysis of the society: epiphany in “The Dead”..................................................8

2.3.1 Manifestation of epiphany: three conflicts..........................................................10

2.3.2 Significance of epiphany.....................................................................................11

1. Conclusion...............................................................................................................12

Work Cited...................................................................................................................13

Bibliography.................................................................................................................14

A Study of the Epiphany in Dubliners

1. Introduction

James Joyce (1882-1941), an Irish poet and novelist, is considered to be one of the greatest writers in English literature and a modernist master. His successful use of symbols and stream of consciousness breaks through the bondage of the realism and traditional writing skills. His presence marks the real blossom of the stream- of - consciousness novel.

Joyce is not a prolific writer, who only wrote three long novels, a collection of short stories, a play and poetry. And his reputation lies primarily in his novels, which includes Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Though Joyce lives abroad for long time, he still takes his motherland Ireland, especially Dublin, as the writing material and made it the most important situational context of his works. Among these works, Dubliners, which sets its background in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, can be seen as the most typical and comprehensive one to show the various Dublin lives and characters in the late 19^th and early 20^th century. Besides, about Dubliners, Joyce, himself, stresses that,

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because the city seemed to me the center of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity, and public life. (134)