LAST B BELL BLOG!!!! Martin &Keely

Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man

So this is going to be a fun, creative blog! Yay!

Uncyclopedia, and other similar Wikipedia spoofs, take legitimate articles and write comedic spoofs of them. For example, the article about James Joyce is written in the style of James Joyce.

assignment?
Click on said article.
Read said article.
Write your own comedic James Joyce-esque paragraph describing either a major character or event in the novel!
Make things interesting.
That is all.

F Bell Final Blog!!

Throughout the novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus's belief and reliance on the Catholic religion slowly deteriorates as he decides to live freely as an artist. At the conclusion of the novel, Stephen's friend Cranly is questioning Stephen's belief in religion. Stephen says, "I neither believe in it or disbelieve in it" (260). When Cranly justifies the normalcies of these doubts Stephen replies, "I do not wish to overcome them" (260).

Since the decline of Stephen's belief is gradual throughout the novel, find any quote supporting his eventual wish to be completely free from the societal restraints of religion.

This will be due on Friday, May 7th

B Bell- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

In Kevin J.H. Dettmar's work entitled The Illicit Joyce of Postmodernism, Dettmar argues that much of Joyce's works are filled with an epiphany, or a moment of illumination of one's mastery over the situation. However, Joyce, being the modernist/postmodernist writer that he was, used epiphanies "to impose closure where in fact none inheres; it is, in other words, a way to fight off the intense disquiet caused by Joyce's 'scrupulous meanness.'" Therefore, Dettmar suggests that Joyce instead used what's known as an epiclesis, or a gradual submission to mystery that allows for a soft, gradual and hard won appreciation for the characters' situations and the falsehood of the epiphany. In other words, Joyce used epiphanies when in fact there wasn't one.
In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen is constantly challenged with his faith and the Catholic Church. However, according to Dettmar's theory on the use of epiclesis in place of epiphanies, many of the characters, not just Stephen, are subjected to these false epiphanies, and we in turn are subjected to a constant epiclesis. Please discuss a character or characters who exhibit this false sense of epiphany, whether it be through the Catholic Church or through politics. Quotes are welcome.


Moderated by Gary and Elizabeth. Due Friday April 30.

Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man- F Bell

Modernism is a literary movement that focuses on individualism, skepticism of institutions such as the government and religion, and the mistrust of absolute truths. As sociologist Georg Simmel once said, "The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life." Provide an example in which Stephan went against society, the government, or religion and embraced individualism. Quotes are encouraged!