1. Week 10
Portrait

2. James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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

4. 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 Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Syracusse UP.

5. 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. Martin’s, 1993.

6. Discussion (1) pp.168-170: “Stephanos Dedalos!”— “imperishable”
pp : “A girl”--- “deeper than other”
pp : “Toward dawn” --- (end of poem)

7. Discussion (2) pp. 204-5: “Aristotle”– “desire and loathing”
pp : “Beauty expressed by the artist” “all esthetic apprehension”
pp : “wholeness, harmony and radiance” – “so to speak”

8. The End