Creasy, M. (2020) Contingency, irony ... textuality: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and textual criticism. Modernist Cultures, 15(1), pp. 48-68. (doi: 10.3366/mod.2020.0279)
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Abstract
This essay explores the representation of contingency within A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in relation to the textual history of James Joyce's novel. There is a fundamental split in this word between haphazard, chance forms of contingency and contingency as determining circumstances. First, I map these conflicting meanings on to Joyce's presentation of Stephen Dedalus and his drive towards artistic autonomy; then I use this tension to explore the textual condition of Joyce's novel, which seems, paradoxically, to demand a hyper-correct text in order to convey the vulnerability of printed works to unforeseen interventions.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Creasy, Dr Matthew |
| Authors: | Creasy, M. |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PE English |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature |
| Journal Name: | Modernist Cultures |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| ISSN: | 2041-1022 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1753-8629 |
| Published Online: | 17 February 2020 |
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