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Comparing Joyce & Updike

Comparing Joyce & Updike. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6ljL00SkpA&feature=related (Irving Berlin’s Araby ) . Araby and A&P. Araby and A&P.

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Comparing Joyce & Updike

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  1. Comparing Joyce & Updike http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6ljL00SkpA&feature=related (Irving Berlin’s Araby)

  2. Arabyand A&P

  3. Arabyand A&P • Like Araby, A&P is told after the fact by a young man now much the wiser, presumably, for his frustrating infatuation with a beautiful but inaccessible girl whose allure excites him into confusing his sexual impulses for those of honor and chivalry. The self-delusion in both cases leads quickly to an emotional fall.

  4. Aesthetics and Sexuality • When human aesthetics come into play, when the object of a young man's carnal desire also gratifies him aesthetically, that is when the confusion arises. • In Irish-Catholic Dublin of the 1890s, Mangan's sister compared to the Queen of Heaven. • Updike has Sammy call his young femme fatal "Queenie," and he does make her the center of a "trinity" of sorts, showing her two friends at one point "huddl[ing] against her for relief.”

  5. Both boys are excited by specified whiteness about the girls…

  6. Religion and Commerce…

  7. Religion and Commerce…

  8. The Gift

  9. Conclusions - Araby

  10. Conclusion A&P

  11. Updike’s Knowledge Base • Studied art Harvard/Oxford • Concerned with shift from romantic to modernist • Uses Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Joyce’s Araby

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