@article{THESIS,
      recid = {1780},
      author = {Spina, Kaitlyn},
      title = {Stephen Dedalus and the Astro-Artistic Mentality: Ulysses  as Creation Ex Nihilo},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2019-06-15},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {With his frequent writing of sunlight and shadows in both  A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN and ULYSSES, James  Joyce depicts his young aspiring artist character, Stephen  Dedalus, as focused on and informed by astronomical  concepts and language. Stephen’s cosmic thoughts encourage  a notion of artistry—which I term astro-artistry for  Stephen’s aspirations towards cosmic duration and  scale—that draws upon articulations of various  simultaneously remembered personal, collective, and cosmic  histories in order to establish a distinct notion of  creation ex nihilo. This paper explores how astronomical  motifs and language allow Stephen to create a sense of  histories and artistic duration that etches out a way for  Ulysses to embody a new—characteristically modernist—type  of creation ex nihilo, generating an atemporal quality in  combining, remembering, and drawing from countless pasts.  Joyce’s juxtaposition of Stephen’s personal histories;  literary histories that prove focal as inspirations for  Stephen; and cosmic lifecycles reimagines the possibilities  for scale, duration, and importance of human artistry.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/1780},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1780},
}