1. Please read your classmates’ online presentation in this week’s module and comment on it. What did you learn and what did you find intriguing? What questions would you like to ask the presenters? 2. Including references to Joyce’s life based on our PPT and our video about Joyce’s life, please analyze and give examples of Stephen’s non-conformist attitude as portrayed in the second part of the novel (pp. 70-140; chapters 3 and 4). Why are they significant and what do they unveil about Stephen and the novel’s major themes? 3. Please read chapter 5 and including textual evidence with page numbers, Explain the extent to which James Joyce’s Portrait is an educational and artist’s novel? Please check our definition of educational and artist’s novel in James Baldick’s Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (CSUN Oviatt Library Online). What counterargument could you present concerning both claims? Your entry should be 350 words long, and it is due 4/5 at 11:59 p.m. Please don’t forget to respond to two of your classmates.
