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The Open Scholarly Edition of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Mark up names for Chapter 1 until l.1000, for issue #37 #52

Closed MelisandeRiefler closed 7 years ago

MelisandeRiefler commented 7 years ago

The changes I have done are: marking up the names of persons and of places. Persons in that sense are names, e.g. "Stephen" or "Mr Dedalus". Places, I interpreted to be specific names places, e.g. "Conglowes" or "Dublin". Specific issues I decided to mark up uncle Charles as Uncle Charles, instead of just Charles, as Stephen kept referring to him as Uncle Charles, as if Uncle was his title, like Father Arnell or Brother Michael, which I thought was quite interesting. I also decided to mark up the world and the universe as place names in the passage where Stephen situates himself in the universe, going from Conglowes to "The Universe", as it seemed significant as a named place to the passage. Additionally, I did not only mark up the names of characters, but also other people, e.g. Parnell, as I thought they were still persons of importance to the novel. Also, I marked up "Father Minister" as a personal name, because Stephen used it in that way, instead of saying "the Minister" or " Father x, the Minister". Finally, I decided to mark up "God" as a personal name in the paragraph where Stephen thinks about how "God" is the name of God, even thought it is not a personal name in general. In that paragraph, however, God becomes a person with a name, which could be interesting to analyse for anyone using the mark ups of names for their analysis of Portrait. Interesting things I noticed Before the Christmas Dinner Mr and Mrs Dedalus are only mentioned as "mother" and "father", while during the dinner they are "Mr/Mrs Dedalus" Most of Stephen's classmates call him "Dedalus", while his parents always call him "Stephen". People are often referred to by their name, rather than a personal pronoun, e.g. "Wells", "Uncle Charles", "Dante", which gives the narrative a sound of a young child that is still figuring out names and relations. (this might be just a personal opinion or feeling)

JonathanReeve commented 7 years ago

Thanks for this very thorough contribution! Those are very interesting observations about name variations, too. I'll merge this into the project soon.

JonathanReeve commented 7 years ago

Manually merged in 16353c67b8644e2fa8d5e4f780f5b0e14ed5fb30.