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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Stephen Dedalus"”.
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Stephen Dedalus and the Mind as Hypertext in <em>Ulysses</em>
… with the physical world. Specifically, within Stephen Dedalus’ chapters, a physical or visual interaction with an object pushes him away from his immediate place in Dublin and further towards his mind so the reader may untangle and interpret its meaning. For Stephen, Dublin becomes a text to …
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The Pertinence of Molly Bloom to the Aesthetic Quest of Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses.
… offers an intimate account of the development of Stephen's artistic perspective, but it by no means concludes with his artistic maturity. Artistic immaturity is one theme which bounds the book.
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The Specter of Death in James Joyce's "Ulysses"
… power of death when rendering the characters Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom. By locating vivid death imagery within the separate narrative space of Stephen’s and Bloom’s interiority, and presenting the manner in which they deal with its presence, he distinguishes these two characters from …
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Esthetics of Dedalus and Bloom: nineteenth century roots, structural metaphors, and resolutions
… Pater, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats. Stephen Dedalus and his esthetics, particularly as they appear in <em>Portrait</em>, are inheritors of that tradition. Further, the study will trace through <em>Ulysses</em> the evolution of the esthetic and its counter-traditions in the esthetics …
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Creator and Creation: Artistic Development in Herman Melville’s Pierre; or, the Ambiguities and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
… a Young Man</em> (1916), Pierre Glendinning and Stephen Dedalus, as well as Isabel Banford, a supporting character in Melville’s novel, to illustrate how the tensions of contemporary society have a direct influence on the artist-hero’s representations and perspectives on self-realization. This …
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Meaning and Function of Charles Stewart Parnell in the Writings of James Joyce
… of the principle boldly announced by Stephen Dedalus in the Portrait: "You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets." But the posturings of young Stephen should not be confused with the actual opinions of a mature James Joyce.
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POSTNATIONALISM, HYBRIDITY, AND UTOPIA IN PAUL DURCAN’S POETRY: TOWARD AN IRISH MINORITARIAN LITERATURE
… only recreates and amplifies what James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus vowed to create in the smithy of his soul – the uncreated conscience of his race – but also offers a twenty-first century “uncreated conscience” for Ireland and other nations struggling to move past nationalism. In that sense, he …
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James Joyce and His Influence : William Faulkner and Anthony Burgess
… the library scene of Joyce's Ulysses, in which Stephen Dedalus proposes a theory about the life and works of Shakespeare, and Burgess' novel (how closely Burgess follows Stephen's discussion of Shakespeare) are traced through biography, sexuality and women, and religion. And finally, a …
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The Signatory Imagination: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Don DeLillo
… 'Toome', and 'Broagh' as inspired by Stephen Dedalus, Heaney performs a critical repatriation of Joyce's work. Joyce uses fictional, motivated relations between names and referents to construct a linguistic correlative for Stephen's youthful naivety - a technique that personalises his …
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The tourist
… alienation and absurdity, no more or less than Stephen Dedalus is a somber, arty <em>dybbuk</em> of Joyce. It is a well-known process in spiritual autobiography to work these exaggerations out of one's self into some aesthetic container for everyone to see. But I do not claim such total …
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The city as metaphor in three works by James Joyce
… Even the isolated, rarified sphere of Stephen's mind reacts to the din of the Dublin streets. Clearly, these three works are about Dublin and city life as well as studies of individuals and they offer a complex analysis of man's experience in the modern city. Thus, the works provide an …
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I go to encounter for the millionth time : the role of revision in Joyce's exploration of identity by Erin M. Fitzgerald.
… climactic close of Chapter IV, at which point Stephen stands at the edge of the shore, looks out over the waves, and discovers his calling to be an artist; they have come to vastly different conclusions. Harry Levin sees the fifth chapter as "the discursive chronicle of Stephen's rebellion" in …
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Contexts for <i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i>
… thought since the days of Plato and Aristotle. Stephen Dedalus represents the culmination of this tradition, while Joyce’s critique of Stephen constitutes a serious challenge to it. In his first novel Joyce lays bare the grounds upon which Modernist aesthetics are founded.</p>