A Portrait of the Animal as a Young Artist
Animality, Instinct, and Cognition in Joyce’s Early Prose
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20249277 |
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| Authors | John Rickard (0000-0002-4402-8801, Bucknell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 56 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h6030056 |
| OpenAlex | W2740555741 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This essay situates James Joyce within the competing discourses of Catholic theology, evolutionary biology, and Nietzsche’s philosophy, with emphasis on their attitudes towards the body and the animal-human boundary. Joyce’s use of “instinct” in his early works (Dubliners, Stephen Hero, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) helps us understand his movement from a view of animals and the human body as frightening or paralyzing to a more open acceptance of the body and its impulses. This transition from portraying the body as an impediment in Dubliners to a source of knowledge or cognition in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man helps us better understand Joyce’s early prose and his embrace of both animal and human bodies in his later works
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Biology · HERO · Instinct · Literature · Portrait · Psychoanalysis · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Samuel Beckett and Modernism
| Highly cited | No |
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