Episode 229: Best of Series, Araby by James Joyce, Ep. 11
This week on The Literary Life we return to the podcast vault for a re-airing of Episode 11, in which Cindy Rollins and Angelina Stanford enjoy a discussion of the short story \u201cAraby\u201d by James Joyce.
Delving into \u201cAraby,\u201d Angelina talks about the history and development of the short story form. Cindy gives a little of her own background with reading James Joyce and why she loves his short stories. Angelina and Cindy also discuss the essential \u201cIrishness\u201d of this story and all the tales in The Dubliners. Angelina walks us through the story, highlighting the kinds of questions and things we should look for when reading closely. Themes discussed in this story include: blindness and sight, light and darkness, romanticism, religious devotion, the search for truth, money, courtly love, and the knight\u2019s quest.
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Commonplace Quotes:Whoever wants to become a Christian must first become a poet.
St. Porphyrios of Kafsokalyvia
Huxley HallA ritual for letting a son or daughter go free, handing them over under the protection of God, is not something that we naturally include as part of growing up today in the West. Yet we are here reminded of one of the most important steps of all of the transitions in life, moving from the confines of the family into freedom and maturity.
Esther de Waal
by John Betjemen
In the Garden City Cafe\u201a with its murals on the wall
Before a talk on \u201cSex and Civics\u201d I meditated on the Fall.
Deep depression settled on me under that electric glare
While outside the lightsome poplars flanked the rose-beds in the square.
While outside the carefree children sported in the summer haze
And released their inhibitions in a hundred different ways.
She who eats her greasy crumpets snugly in the inglenook
Of some birch-enshrouded homestead, dropping butter on her book
Can she know the deep depression of this bright, hygienic hell?
And her husband, stout free-thinker, can he share in it as well?
Not the folk-museum\u2019s charting of man\u2019s Progress out of slime
Can release me from the painful seeming accident of Time.
Barry smashes Shirley\u2019s dolly, Shirley\u2019s eyes are crossed with hate,
Comrades plot a Comrade\u2019s downfall \u201cin the interests of the State\u201d.
Not my vegetarian dinner, not my lime-juice minus gin,
Quite can drown a faint conviction that we may be born in Sin.
To Pause on the Threshold by Esther de Waal
The Dubliners by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Angela\u2019s Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Abbot by Sir Walter Scott
The Memoirs of Vidocq by Eugene Fran\xe7ios Vidocq
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