A Portrait of the Animal as a Young Artist: Animality, Instinct, and Cognition in Joyce’s Early Prose

This essay situates James Joyce within the competing discourses of Catholic theology, evolutionary biology, and Nietzsche’s philosophy, with emphasis on their attitudes towards the body and the animal-human boundary. Joyce’s use of “instinct” in his early works (Dubliners, Stephen Hero, and A Portra...

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Main Author: John S. Rickard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-08-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/6/3/56