Joyce = The Universe?
Mar. 26th, 2009 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieI saw a headline in the print version of the New York Times today that I never thought I would see in my lifetime: "Hoovervilles of '09 Emerge in Fresno and Elsewhere."* And then in explaining what a Hooverville was to someone, I unconsciously used the phrase, "during the first depression."
ACK.
* Granted, according to this, the headline is somewhat misleading. Still.
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In other news, I totally just made a veiled reference in my Joyce paper to the Minbari belief that life/the soul is the sentient universe trying to understand itself. I'm tempted to make the connection explicit, but I think that might be going too far. (For the record, my thesis has expanded from "the bird-woman at the end of part IV and the pregnant woman of the Ballyhoura hills in Portrait are aisling figures who represent art rather than Ireland, and thus women are still objectified, just in a different way from before" to all of that, plus, "everything in this book is a reflection some aspect of Joyce himself, so therefore these two women are aspects of Joyce's own conception of his artistic talent." I'm not sure this is going to be provable in a ten-page paper.)
ACK.
* Granted, according to this, the headline is somewhat misleading. Still.
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In other news, I totally just made a veiled reference in my Joyce paper to the Minbari belief that life/the soul is the sentient universe trying to understand itself. I'm tempted to make the connection explicit, but I think that might be going too far. (For the record, my thesis has expanded from "the bird-woman at the end of part IV and the pregnant woman of the Ballyhoura hills in Portrait are aisling figures who represent art rather than Ireland, and thus women are still objectified, just in a different way from before" to all of that, plus, "everything in this book is a reflection some aspect of Joyce himself, so therefore these two women are aspects of Joyce's own conception of his artistic talent." I'm not sure this is going to be provable in a ten-page paper.)
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Date: 2009-03-27 01:32 am (UTC)Wow.
In other news, I totally just made a veiled reference in my Joyce paper to the Minbari belief that life/the soul is the sentient universe trying to understand itself.
FTW!
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Date: 2009-03-27 02:26 am (UTC)Yeah.
FTW!
I rather thought so.
However, I was hoping that someone else had come up with that concept before (all the characters in Portrait are reflections of Joyce) so I could just write, "as so-and-so says, all the characters are actually Joyce, so therefore he already possesses these women..." but so far, no luck. And I'm pretty sure attempting to prove that in ten pages would not be pretty. It could be a dissertation.
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Date: 2009-03-28 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-03-27 02:36 am (UTC)I'm afraid you are cutting-edge.
(Um, this is still supposed to get better mid-'10, right?)
I'm not sure this is going to be provable in a ten-page paper.
You can has a dissertation! *facepalm*
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Date: 2009-03-27 09:12 pm (UTC)I'm afraid I am.
(Um, this is still supposed to get better mid-'10, right?)
I was hearing that for a while, but lately I haven't been. NPR hasn't been sounding terribly hopeful lately.
You can has a dissertation! *facepalm*
Oh, dear.
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Date: 2009-03-28 06:27 am (UTC)Hopeful comm! (http://community.livejournal.com/so_very_doomed/)
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Date: 2009-03-28 06:03 pm (UTC)I think I need to learn how to grow vegetables and raise livestock. And invest in farmland and solar panels.
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