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Floral Personification In James Joyce’S A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Noah Z. Gichan
Floral Personification In James Joyce’S A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Noah Z. Gichan
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In Richard Ellmann's influential biography on James Joyce he describes Joyce's transformation from a pious schoolboy to a secular modernist artist as a type of “transmutation.” When it comes to Joyce’s fiction this transformation translates to a famous moment when Stephen Dedalus describes a “magical moment” where he will “meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.” Once this moment happens Stephen will have become “transfigured.” While there are many such moments of transfiguration, there is one such moment when Stephen chooses the vocation of the artist and describes his soul as an “opening …