Google Earth Community: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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James Joyce is often recognized as the greatest writer in the English language after William Shakespeare. His few but looming works altered the literary landscape in the early twentieth century. He is perhaps best known for his largely stream of consciousness work Ulysses, in which Leopold Bloom wanders the streets of Dublin on a journey that parallels the adventures of Odysseus (Ulysses, in Latin) on his long voyage home from the Trojan War. Read more at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce.

He turned to the flyleaf of the geography and read what he had written there: himself, his name and where he was.

Stephen Dedalus
Class of Elements
Clongowes Wood College
Sallins
County Kildare
Ireland
Europe
The World
The Universe

[...]Then he read the flyleaf from the bottom to the top till he came to his own name. That was he: and he read down the page again. What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything after the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? It could not be a wall but there could be a thin thin line there all around everything. It was very big to think about everything and everywhere.

Likely James Joyce's most widely read work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man follows the maturation of Stephen Dedalus as he develops from a sensitive youth toward an artist capable of saving his country. The work is full of geographic references, especially to the Dublin in which Stephen lives. This presentation marks nearly a hundred such references from throughout the text.

The following book and Seamus Deane's notes have been invaluable in creating this presentation:
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Ed. Seamus Deane. New York: Penguin, 1993.

Useful Links:
Online Text from the University of Adelaide: http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/j8p/index.html
James Joyce: The Brazen Head: http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/
The James Joyce Centre: http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/home/
James Joyce Scholar's Collection: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/JoyceColl/
Celebrating the Bloomsday Centennial: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1959559
Check out the link for 'James Joyce, A Portrait in Sound: Readings from a 1980 NPR Special.'

Presentation created by David Herring, University High School, Tucson, Arizona, August 1, 2006
Contact: david.herring@tusd1.org
Google Earth Education Community: http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/dherring/ge/googleearth.htm

Edited by davidherring (12/01/06 05:51 AM)