A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Group

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modflimsygirl
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What is the aesthetic theory of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?

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Posted by modflimsygirl on Tuesday April 29, 2008 at 10:42 AM and tagged with a portrait of the artist as a young man, aesthetics, art, james joyce, portrait, stephen dedalus.

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  1. podunc Teacher
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    I believe I answered this question a few days ago, but here goes:

    According to a critical work entitled The Future of Modernism, Joyce articulated the aesthetic theories of Stephen Dedalus in his personal notebooks. The main principles are as follows:

    • any theory of beauty must include the conventionally ugly
    • art is neither immoral nor amoral but transcends conventional morality
    • the work of art is a "selfcontained wholeness." I believe this means that art does not perform a social function, but is rather "art for art's sake."

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    http://books.google.com/books?id=jqVkJyX9oM4C&pg=PA40...
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    http://www.enotes.com/portrait-artist/

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    Posted by podunc on Tuesday April 29, 2008 at 12:50 PM