The Linden Tree in "The dead" by James Joyce.
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1756
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i12.217
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i12.217
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Álvarez Pérez, IciarFecha
2011Resumen
James Joyce uses in his short story ‘The Dead’, included in the collection Dubliners (1914), different literary motives that contribute to construct the subject of the story, which is not other than the fragility that exists between death and life. Among these motives there is the Linden tree that probably Joyce adapted from the song ‘Lindenbaum’written by Franz Schubert and included in the song cycle Winter Journey (1828). This article attempts to investigate the parallelisms that exist between both works of art and to explain how Joyce succeeds in creating the necessary atmosphere that masterly illustrates the subject of the story. James Joyce utiliza en su relato ‘Los muertos’, incluido en la colección Dublineses (1914), una serie de motivos literarios que contribuyen a construir el tema del relato, que no es otro que la frágil línea divisoria que existe entre la vida y la muerte. Entre estos motivos se encuentra el árbol de tilo, que muy probablemente Joyce tomó de la canción ‘Lind...
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Motivo literario
Viaje de Invierno
Muerte
Árbol de tilo
"Los muertos"
James Joyce
Literary motif
Winter Journey
Linden tree
Death
"The Dead"