The Irish Identity: Independence, History, and Literature

Joyce’s Portrait as Modernist Narrative (1x21)

Fecha de emisión: Oct 31, 2016

In this second lecture on Portrait, consider how the English language presents a great tension for Irish writers, and see how Joyce’s solution was to conquer the language of the conquerors. Then watch as the book’s hero, Stephen Dedalus, takes his first steps as an artist to “forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”