Week 10

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Week 10

• Portrait

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• James Joyce
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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• Issues
• Emergence of subjectivity
• Entering the symbolic order
• Becoming an artist
• Quest of Mother
• Portrayal of women in Portrait

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Structural Pattern

• Ch.1 social approach to life (appeal to Father
  Conmee)
• Ch.2 sensuous approach (visit to the prostitute)
• Ch.3 religious approach (confession to the
  priest)
• Ch.4 aesthetic approach (vision of the wading
  girl)
• Ch.5 unresolved
• Thornton, Weldon. The Antimodernism of Joyces
  Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Syracusse
  UP.

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Women in Portrait

• Ch.1 Mother and Child
• Ch.2 Virgin and Whore
• Ch.3 The Catholic Virgin
• Ch.4 The Bird-Girl Aesthetic Muse
• Ch.5 Flight from the Mother (biological,
  ecclesiastical, and political)
• Henke, Suzette. Stephen Dedalus and Women A
  Feminist Reading of Portrait. Bedford/St.
  Martins, 1993.

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Discussion (1)

• pp.168-170 Stephanos Dedalos! imperishable
• pp. 171-73 A girl--- deeper than other
• pp. 217-24 Toward dawn --- (end of poem)

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Discussion (2)

• pp. 204-5 Aristotle desire and loathing
• pp. 206- 9 Beauty expressed by the artist
  . . . all esthetic apprehension
• pp. 212-15 wholeness, harmony and radiance
  so to speak

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• The End