As Camp as a Row of Pink Tents: Stephen’s Portrait of Mr W. S.
In the ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ episode of Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus presents a theory about Shakespeare’s biographical motivations for writing Hamlet, which he ultimately claims, perhaps disingenuously, to not believe. Stephen’s apparent disbelief in his own theory echoes Oscar Wilde’s ‘Portrait of Mr...
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| description | In the ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ episode of Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus presents a theory about Shakespeare’s biographical motivations for writing Hamlet, which he ultimately claims, perhaps disingenuously, to not believe. Stephen’s apparent disbelief in his own theory echoes Oscar Wilde’s ‘Portrait of Mr W. H.’, which is referenced within ‘Scylla’, and which also propounds a theory of Shakespeare’s artistic production in terms of his biography. Furthermore, like the various characters in Wilde’s story, Stephen’s theory is propelled primarily from the internal evidence of Shakespeare’s texts. In this article, I will analyse the playful and learned insincerity of both theories through the optic of camp in order to tease out the implications that Stephen’s argument about Shakespeare has for James Joyce’s aesthetics. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-18817fbd69ee493795b74c99abc355db2025-01-28T10:11:10ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesOpen Library of Humanities2056-67002024-06-0110110.16995/olh.15270As Camp as a Row of Pink Tents: Stephen’s Portrait of Mr W. S.Samuel Slote0English, Trinity College DublinIn the ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ episode of Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus presents a theory about Shakespeare’s biographical motivations for writing Hamlet, which he ultimately claims, perhaps disingenuously, to not believe. Stephen’s apparent disbelief in his own theory echoes Oscar Wilde’s ‘Portrait of Mr W. H.’, which is referenced within ‘Scylla’, and which also propounds a theory of Shakespeare’s artistic production in terms of his biography. Furthermore, like the various characters in Wilde’s story, Stephen’s theory is propelled primarily from the internal evidence of Shakespeare’s texts. In this article, I will analyse the playful and learned insincerity of both theories through the optic of camp in order to tease out the implications that Stephen’s argument about Shakespeare has for James Joyce’s aesthetics. https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/15270/James JoyceOscar WildecampSusan SontagShakespeare |
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| topic | James Joyce Oscar Wilde camp Susan Sontag Shakespeare |
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