The making of the modern artist: Stephen Dedalus and Will Brangwen

Product Description The Making of the Modern Artist: Stephen Dedalus and Will Brangwen examines two fictional artists by James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow respectively. It brings together Joyce and Lawrence in their common concern with the modern artist and modern art. Taking the two major artist characters of the two works, this study establishes that Joyce and Lawrence, irrespective of major background, educational, artistic and philosophical differences, converge on the person, character, artistic vision and working methods of the modern artist. This study makes little effort at looking at these fictional artists as alter egos of Joyce and Lawrence; it treats them as modern artists in their own right. It has tried to give them some-what a critical right of existence of their own. Review In this scholarly and comprehensive work, Dr Ernest Veyu masterfully examines the artist as a fictional character in the modern British novel. He brings out Joyce s and Lawrence s captivating artistic strategies which highlight the evolving nature of the traumatic early 20th century society and its influence on the artist, the artist s otherworldliness and rebellious tendencies, their self-discovery and their vitalizing vision in art. The work is a refreshing analysis and interpretation of the works of two [of the] most popular novelists in the twentieth century, an important contribution to studies in the modern novel in general. --Prof. John Nkemngong Nkengasong, Department of English, University of Yaoundé 1 About the Author Ernest L. VEYU is a holder of a PhD from the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon. He specialises in, and teaches British Literature, alongside Postcolonial Studies as a minor, in the same university. He has published a number of articles in national and international journals in these domains and is actively involved in research in his institution and beyond. He is the author of Virginia Woolf's Artists in To the Lighthouse, and four collections of poems.