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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 Chapter 1 l.1000-1119 #37 #53

Closed ZK2020 closed 7 years ago

ZK2020 commented 7 years ago

I noticed, as the Christmas dinner heated, there was a sharp uptake in the frequency of names due to the characters' yelling at each other. The recurring line "Simon!" especially struck me as the association with simony kept popping in my head (thanks to it being one of the three words in "The Dead," and often mentioned by Professor Cole.

I did forty two marks. They were all during the Christmas dinner scene and mostly consisting of the names: Simon, Mr. Casey, Dante, Mrs. Daedalus, and Mrs. Riordan.

JonathanReeve commented 7 years ago

Looks great! And interesting observation about the frequency of names during the Christmas dinner scene. I'm going to add an analysis issue for quantifying these, so that once the markup is finished, we can discover the density of names in the novel. Thanks! Merging.