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priy
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What are the three main aesthetic principles put forward by Stephen in A Portrait of the Artist as a young man?

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Posted by priy on Tuesday March 11, 2008 at 4:50 AM and tagged with a portrait of the artist as a young man, aesthetics, stephen.

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  1. podunc Teacher
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    A book entitled The Future of Modernism, edited by Hugh Witemeyer, answers this very question:

    "In the notebooks of 1903-4 Joyce articulated the aesthetic principles that Dedalus defends . . . that any theory of beauty must encompass the conventionally ugly; that art is neither immoral or amoral but beyond conventional morality; that the work of art should be a wholeness, 'selfbounded and selfcontained'; and that the third of Aquinas's three phases of aesthetic apprehension must be understood (or changed) to mean not enjoyment but stasis, 'the luminous silent stasis of estheic pleasure'" (40).

    That's actually four principles, but I hope this helps.

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    http://books.google.com/books?id=jqVkJyX9oM4C&pg=PA40...

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    Posted by podunc on Friday April 25, 2008 at 6:39 PM