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Topic: RSS FeedMy Father and Myself: J. R. Ackerley's marginal modernist Kunstlerroman.(Critical essay)
Biography, September, 2008 by Gurfinkel, Helena
MODERNISM AND THE KUNSTLERROMAN
"Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead." With these words, Stephen Dedalus, the protagonist of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, addresses Daedalus, the mythical artist, and his father, Simon Dedalus. Dedalus's words are perhaps the best-known illustration of the importance of father-son bonds for the modernist novel. The contentious relationship between an artist and a figure of parental authority is the central narrative thread of the modernist Kunstlerroman, the story of an artist's growth and pursuit of a creative calling. Stephen Dedalus leaves Ireland; Virginia Woolf's Lily Briscoe has her "vision" (209) only after the spell of her desire for Mrs. Ramsay has been broken, while the...
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