
INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT IF NO MORE, thought through my eyes. Online text Wikisource (pre-1923 edition) Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.ĪPRIL 27. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth.ĪPRIL 26. And the voices say with them: We are your kinsmen. They are held out to say: We are alone-come. The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships that stand against the moon, their tale of distant nations. His mother had a nicer smell than his father. When you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt. His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face. Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo… James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1st ed. "Le nouveau roman": Sarraute, Kultaiset hedelmät."Eksistentialistinen romaani": Camus, Sivullinen."Tottumus on toinen luonto": (a) Beckett, (b) Proust."Pohjoisamerikkalaista (jälki)romantiikkaa": Poe ja Whitman.»Selvitys sanasta romanttinen» (synfilosofinen polylogi).Muita aihepiiriin kuuluvia tekstejä (luentoja aiemmilta vuosilta):

"Realismeja" / "Romantiikan jälkeen – barokki?": Morrison, Minun kansani, minun rakkaani."Modernismi ja myytti": Joyce, Odysseus."Psykologinen realismi": Tolstoi, Anna Karenina.Vuoden 1857 modernistit, vanhat romantikot…: Flaubert (ks."Modernein viktoriaaninen romaani": Emily Brontë, Humiseva harju.
