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Depiction, Ontogeny, and Lyric in A Portrait

Depiction, Ontogeny, and Lyric in A Portrait JEFFEREY SIMONS The title A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man gives three cues to the novel's reader. The phrase ``A Portrait'' names one depiction among others. The specifying ``of the Artist'' points to the subject portrayed and to an archetype, the latter revealed by the Ovidian epigraph ``Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes'' (P 1).1 And ``as a Young Man'' assigns a gender and a stage of life. In this study, I take these cues, tie them to the issues of ontogeny and lyric vocation, and see the novel as the genesis of an artist as a lyric poet.2 ``FACE? THERE WAS NO FACE SEEN'' ( P 221) Seeing A Portrait's title as a conceptual net cast forward across the words that follow, we are led to look for pictorial depiction and the arts. We look specifically for the portraiture of painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography, along with music, dance, drama, architecture, and the decorative arts.3 Portraits of the sort just mentioned tend to show two sets of subjects, the first Stephen's ancestors in ``the old portraits on the walls'' (P 16) of his childhood homes. During the Christmas dinner scene in I.iii, for example, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Joyce Studies Annual Fordham University Press

Depiction, Ontogeny, and Lyric in A Portrait

Joyce Studies Annual , Volume 2013 (1) – Dec 12, 2013

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JEFFEREY SIMONS The title A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man gives three cues to the novel's reader. The phrase ``A Portrait'' names one depiction among others. The specifying ``of the Artist'' points to the subject portrayed and to an archetype, the latter revealed by the Ovidian epigraph ``Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes'' (P 1).1 And ``as a Young Man'' assigns a gender and a stage of life. In this study, I take these cues, tie them to the issues of ontogeny and lyric vocation, and see the novel as the genesis of an artist as a lyric poet.2 ``FACE? THERE WAS NO FACE SEEN'' ( P 221) Seeing A Portrait's title as a conceptual net cast forward across the words that follow, we are led to look for pictorial depiction and the arts. We look specifically for the portraiture of painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography, along with music, dance, drama, architecture, and the decorative arts.3 Portraits of the sort just mentioned tend to show two sets of subjects, the first Stephen's ancestors in ``the old portraits on the walls'' (P 16) of his childhood homes. During the Christmas dinner scene in I.iii, for example,

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Published: Dec 12, 2013

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