James Joyce Flashcards
Against whom did a director say there were treasonous remarks in Joyce’s poem “Ivy Day in the Committee Room”?
Edward VII
“The Dead” is set in:
1904
What is strange about the monks?
They sleep in coffins
A kind of “tool” in fiction writing
Foreshadowing
Who subsidized Joyce from 1917 until the rest of his life?
Feminist Harriet S. Weaver
What was Joyce doing in Paris when he was called back to Dublin because his mother was dying?
Pursuing medical studies
The protagonis of “The Dead” writes about what in a newspaper?
Literature
What is “stirabout”?
Porridge
Joyce’s wife’s name is:
Nora Barnacle
What is Quadrilles?
A square dance
“They say you never cross O’Connell Bridge without seeing…”
A white horse
What is the name of the protagonist in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
Stephen Dedalus
The horse shames Gabriel’s grandfather because…
He circled the statue of King Billy and would not stop
True or false: Joyce’s Ulysses was banned in England and America
True
Who is Freddy Malins?
A nephew of the Morkins sisters
