The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Useful study links:
The Modern World: http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/joyce_works_portrait.html
Yeats, W.B and Postcolonialism: http://postcolonialstudies.emory.edu/w-b-yeats-and-postcolonialism/
Charles Stweart Parnell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stewart_Parnell
London School of Journalism : http://www.english-literature.org/essays/joyce.php
Celtic Religion :http://www.gaelicmatters.com/celtic-religion.html
Celtic Polytheism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_polytheism
*I apologize for using Wikipedia :( due to copyrights this was the best way to get into on our page.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Notes and Questions
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Significant Dates for James Joyce Epiphanies
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Guiding Questions
Choose a novel or play in which a minor character serves as a foil to a main character. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the relation between the minor character and the major character illuminates the meaning of the work.
In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1889), protagonist Edna Pontellier is said to possess “that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.” In a novel or play that you have studied, identify a character who conforms outwardly while questioning contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid mere plot summary.
Critic Roland Barthes has said “Literature is the question minus the answer.” Choose a novel or play and, considering Barthes’ observation, write an essay in which you analyze a central question the work raises and the extent to which it offers any answers. Explain how the author’s treatment of this question affects your understanding of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary.
From a novel or play choose a character (not necessarily the protagonist) whose mind is pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling forces and explain how this conflict within one character illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole.
Select a novel or play and, focus on one symbol, write an essay analyzing how that symbol functions in the work and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot
Choose a novel or play in which a central character leaves home yet finds that home remain significant. Write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the importance of “home” to this character and reasons for it continuing influence. Explain how the character's idea of home illuminates the larger meaning of the work.
Select a novel, play, or epic in which a character experiences such a rift and becomes cut off from “home,” whether that home is the character’s birthplace, family, homeland, or other special place. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the character’s experience with exile is both alienating and enriching, and how this experience illuminated the meaning of work as a whole. You may choose a work from the list below or one of comparable literary merit. Do not merely summarize the plot.
Choose a novel or play that you have studied and write a well-organized essay in which you describe an “illuminating” episode or moment and explain how it functions as a “casement,” a window that opens onto the meaning of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary.
A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel, recounts the psychological or moral development of its protagonist from youth to maturity, when this character recognizes his or her place in the world. Select a single pivotal moment in the psychological or moral development of the protagonist of a bildungsroman. Then write a well-organized essay that analyzes how that single moment shapes the meaning of the work as a whole.
Choose a novel or play in which a minor character serves as a foil to a main character. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the relation between the minor character and the major character illuminates the meaning of the work.
In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1889), protagonist Edna Pontellier is said to possess “that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.” In a novel or play that you have studied, identify a character who conforms outwardly while questioning contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid mere plot summary.
Critic Roland Barthes has said “Literature is the question minus the answer.” Choose a novel or play and, considering Barthes’ observation, write an essay in which you analyze a central question the work raises and the extent to which it offers any answers. Explain how the author’s treatment of this question affects your understanding of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary.
From a novel or play choose a character (not necessarily the protagonist) whose mind is pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling forces and explain how this conflict within one character illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole.
Select a novel or play and, focus on one symbol, write an essay analyzing how that symbol functions in the work and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot
Choose a novel or play in which a central character leaves home yet finds that home remain significant. Write a well-developed essay in which you analyze the importance of “home” to this character and reasons for it continuing influence. Explain how the character's idea of home illuminates the larger meaning of the work.
Select a novel, play, or epic in which a character experiences such a rift and becomes cut off from “home,” whether that home is the character’s birthplace, family, homeland, or other special place. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the character’s experience with exile is both alienating and enriching, and how this experience illuminated the meaning of work as a whole. You may choose a work from the list below or one of comparable literary merit. Do not merely summarize the plot.
Choose a novel or play that you have studied and write a well-organized essay in which you describe an “illuminating” episode or moment and explain how it functions as a “casement,” a window that opens onto the meaning of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary.
A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel, recounts the psychological or moral development of its protagonist from youth to maturity, when this character recognizes his or her place in the world. Select a single pivotal moment in the psychological or moral development of the protagonist of a bildungsroman. Then write a well-organized essay that analyzes how that single moment shapes the meaning of the work as a whole.