Assignment 2
(a) Summarise the argument made in each of your two chosen essays (200 words each = 400 words total)
In Daedalus and Joyce Writing the Books on Themselves, John Paul Riquelme broaches the different narrative styles deployed by James Joyce in A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man. This analysis opens up on the “oscillating perspective” of the narrative, which refers to the constant shift between the first person narrative and the third person narrative in the story. This “oscillating perspective” is characterized by the alternating between the character’s outlook and the narrator’s outlook and highlighted through “James Joyce’s subversion of realism conventions”(Riquelme), notably visible through the disrupted chronology of the novel’s narrative (Riquelme). This essay also focuses on the “dislocations in style and story”(Riquelme) of the novel. Some “displacements” (Riquelme) operate at the narrative level, as Stephen’s early life is characterized by physical and mental mobility, but also at a stylistic level since the narrative oscillates between the character’s narrated monologue and the narrator’s perspective. Such a structure permits to reflect the “the developing creative consciousness of Stephen as well as the author’s writing expertise”. (Riquelme). The last style employed by Joyce is the Journal’s style. This telegraphic style as well as the epigraph, constitute some elements “out of context” of the narrative that contribute to counter the realistic dimension of the novel
In the Conscience of the race, Pericles Lewis focuses in the relationship between …show more content…
"Dedalus and Joyce Writing the Book of Themselves." A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme, Norton, 2007, pp. 366-81.
Lewis, Pericles. "The Conscience of the Race: The Nation as Church of the Modern Age", A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme, Norton, 2007, pp.
(a) Summarise the argument made in each of your two chosen essays (200 words each = 400 words total)
In Daedalus and Joyce Writing the Books on Themselves, John Paul Riquelme broaches the different narrative styles deployed by James Joyce in A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man. This analysis opens up on the “oscillating perspective” of the narrative, which refers to the constant shift between the first person narrative and the third person narrative in the story. This “oscillating perspective” is characterized by the alternating between the character’s outlook and the narrator’s outlook and highlighted through “James Joyce’s subversion of realism conventions”(Riquelme), notably visible through the disrupted chronology of the novel’s narrative (Riquelme). This essay also focuses on the “dislocations in style and story”(Riquelme) of the novel. Some “displacements” (Riquelme) operate at the narrative level, as Stephen’s early life is characterized by physical and mental mobility, but also at a stylistic level since the narrative oscillates between the character’s narrated monologue and the narrator’s perspective. Such a structure permits to reflect the “the developing creative consciousness of Stephen as well as the author’s writing expertise”. (Riquelme). The last style employed by Joyce is the Journal’s style. This telegraphic style as well as the epigraph, constitute some elements “out of context” of the narrative that contribute to counter the realistic dimension of the novel
In the Conscience of the race, Pericles Lewis focuses in the relationship between …show more content…
"Dedalus and Joyce Writing the Book of Themselves." A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme, Norton, 2007, pp. 366-81.
Lewis, Pericles. "The Conscience of the Race: The Nation as Church of the Modern Age", A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme, Norton, 2007, pp.