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Stephen Dedalus and Nationalism without Nationalism.
- Source :
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Journal of Modern Literature . Fall2017, Vol. 41 Issue 1, p40-57. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- While recent critics have often downplayed the significance of Joyce's attack on the Gaelic Revival in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the novel actually enacts nothing less than a systematic repudiation of nationalist tropes from the position of liberal cosmopolitanism. As a detailed comparison of Joyce's text with the turn-of-the-century revivalist discourse shows, A Portrait undermines each of the key revivalist preoccupations (including both linguistic nationalism and ethnic essentialism), finally deconstructing the project of nation building in toto . This radical critique of nationalism suggests that, after twenty years in which Joyce studies have been dominated by attempts to displace the once-prevalent vision of Joyce as an apolitical and internationalist aesthete with a version of Joyce as, above all, a colonial Irish intellectual, it is time to once again take his commitment to aestheticism and cosmopolitanism seriously. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0022281X
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Modern Literature
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 126869541
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.41.1.04