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Death, Literature, and Its Consolations

In: The Study of Time IV

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  • G. H. Ford

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An early scene in James Joyce’s novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, shows the protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, as a child attending a boarding school outside of Dublin. One day he opens up his geography textbook and notes how he has written his name on the title page: Stephen Dedalus Class of Elements Clongowes Wood College Sallins County Kildare Ireland Europe The World The Universe The little boy, as Joyce says, tries reading the page from bottom to top until he comes to his own name: That was he: and he read down the page again. What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? … He could think only of God. God was God’s name just as his name was Stephen. … It made him very tired to think that way. It made him feel his head very big.

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  • G. H. Ford, 1981. "Death, Literature, and Its Consolations," Springer Books, in: J. T. Fraser & Nathanial Lawrence & David Park (ed.), The Study of Time IV, pages 46-58, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4612-5947-3_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-5947-3_4
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