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What Is The Role of Art and Artists In Society? – James Joyce On The Duty of Artists



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A video essay exploring the role of artists in society through a close reading/analysis of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

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Chapters:
Introduction: 00:00
1: Joyce’s Portrait: 03:40
2: The Duty of Artists: 04:35
Dr. Hilton’s History Corner: 06:32
3: The Making of an Artist: 09:53
4: Taking Flight as an Artist: 12:44
Sponsor: 15:38

23 Comments

  2. Fleeting Egos

    This video was a breath of fresh air! The format and execution of this video is pure ART (no pun intended) ❤

  3. Matthew Boylan

    Weird coincidence, I just finished this for the first time the other day and it really struck a chord with me as an undergrad student of creative writing. The way Joyce distills the essence of why we write at the end of the chapter where Stephen watches a girl wading in the water resonated with me unlike few other pieces of writing have.

  4. Pavel Tretyak

    James Joyce fanboy here. Good job dude. Couple notes to help further your analysis: 1) T. S. Elliot's criticism of Ulysses and 'Tradition and the Individual Talent's are both good, short pieces to help further modernism's perspective on the relationship between history, art, and the artist. 2) Ellmanns's biography on Joyce is essential for masters and Ph.D level scholarship on him and I highly recommend. 3) Jung's universal unconscious and archetypes further analysis even more and help provide a framework for Stephen's perception of heroism and rebellion (the original title was 'Stephen Hero,' after all). 4) Joyce's philosophy was heavily influenced by Saint Thomas Aquinas, which then dances with Aristotelian and Platonic aesthetic theories. There so much more… Good job. Again!

  6. T.J. Johnson

    howd you get those art chapter break things? they look so cool, plus which software do you use?
    thanks

  9. Soumyadip

    I have an exam after a few days and my 1st exam is on Women's Literature but now I am writing a comment that I'm watching "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" great 🤭
    Please hold on to 1984 by Gorge Orwell

  10. Perhaps

    the beginning was almost like a classical parody of American Psycho lmao

    but… read this book in HS, nothing but "artistic" elitism really

  11. Maci Branch

    I have a story to tell. I was in Dublin for Bloomsday, for the century anniversary of Ulysses. I got a Joyce tattoo, got closer to my wife, and bought a third edition of Portrait of the Artist from 1922. I read Ulysses with a Joyce scholar on a study abroad trip, and saw Barry McGovern read the last two chapters to complete the novel in Dublin on Bloomsday.

  13. TheAntsyGhost

    I started watching you because of your common place journal thoughts and writings. Now here I am logging some things from this video in my common place journal to sit with and ponder. This hit home for me in away that you probably understand well, otherwise why would you have made such a masterpiece to reach others? ❤

  14. Brandon's Bookshelf

    This is my number one favorite book. I just read it for my third pass. Its amazing to me how this book hit at 16 vs 24 vs 33 as I have grown up. Thanks for the great video!

  18. brugjam

    Great video I'm Irish and love Joyce, good concise summary of Irish Revival movement

  19. EE

    In some way the arts are highly underappreciated in germany. But then again, most people will be highly impressed if you say you´re an artist, classical musician,… . With lawyers, doctors and stuff many people will also be impressed, but very many people will assume the for example lawyer, thinks too high of himself and in a way looks down on the others. It´s like they think just because you studied something academically difficult with a high reputation, you´re elitist or something. But people here do admire creativity and talent.

  20. Kareem Rashad

    Beautiful and very witty.
    This is the kind of videos that make me launch youtube everyday. Love your work Robin.

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