Before you Read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce Book Summary, Analysis, Review

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Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Happy Bloomsday! We're celebrating this year by doing "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce along with our friends Noah and Lucas. Lots of people have asked for tips on reading Joyce and the best place to start reading James Joyce. If you chose this book, let's talk about some of the background elements such as Nationalism and Religion. The Catholic Church has a huge influence on this semi-autobiography. Are you thinking about reading this book? Let us know what attracted you to it in the comments below. We trie to keep it as Spoiler Free as possible.
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19:38 Historical Context-- Ireland and the Catholic Church
22:56 Historical Context-- Nationalism and the British Rule
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@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/thecodexcantina BOOKMARKS: Publication Info: @1:26 Why the Text is Important: @3:56 Resource for Reading: @9:06 Autobiography: @11:28 Writing Technique: @15:25 Historical Context-- --Ireland and the Catholic Church: @19:38 --Nationalism and the British Rule: @22:56 Themes + the Road Ahead: @28:51

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. James Joyce Playlist: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdFjf8p_0NqlYWw.html

@aroundtheweird 4 жыл бұрын

"I can't print what I can't understand." Kind of hilarious.

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

It’s a kick in the balls and pat on the back at the same time

@ChrisfromtheBasement 4 жыл бұрын

This one hell of a task you guys have taken on. I dont know if my small brain could comprehend Joyce let alone give a breakdown on how to go about reading him. Seriously great work guys.

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, sir. To be honest we put a lot of effort into prepping a Before video: it wasn’t easy.

@garbagemonster3944 3 жыл бұрын

the care and attention you guys put in these videos does not go unnoticed! i’m just getting into joyce and i appreciate resources like this so much. thanks for enjoying these books and helping others to as well! i first ran into joyce in finnegans wake and was fascinated with his genius. i hope to be equipped to tackle ulysses very soon and then maybe one day the Wake.

@TheCodeXCantina 3 жыл бұрын

Nice! As you get into him, I hope you enjoy his works!

@Ben-xl4hp 3 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this video. As an Irish person it’s great to see that you guys have really delved into the contextual elements of the text. Deserve a lot more recognition, I’ve subbed!

@TheCodeXCantina 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you! Every comment and sub helps us grow! :D

@LisaDeRose 3 жыл бұрын

wow! you guys deserve all the recognition! I'll go through many of your videos over the next month (so many exams to prepare nghhh). really loving the format, the passion and the accuracy.

@TheCodeXCantina 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I appreciate there are others that can join in on the excitement of it all.

@SpenelliSpeaks 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent! This is wonderful! I've only ever read annotated copies of Joyce's work - I've read both Portrait and Ulysses. I enjoyed both but I'm not sure that I would have without the annotations. I have read a lot of the writers during this time - "the Modernist era" - and feel that you understand them more individually as you read more from the collective whole: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Kafka, Hemingway, Falkner, etc. These writers/artists really shaped literature as the world changed through the Great War into WWII. I really loved this and I look forward to more videos like this! ::)) Dani

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

That comment right there about "you understand them more individually as you read more from the collectively whole" probably gets comment of the month! Completely agree :D

@chrisweeks4770 5 ай бұрын

Thank you guys! Cracking it open now 10 years after when I read it for the first time.

@whiskeyonmykindle 4 жыл бұрын

This has been on my TBR for aaaaages - I'm really glad I watched this!

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

You and me both... we only jammed it in because of the hilarious challenge video that was made out to us.

@EveryoneWhoReadsitMustConverse 4 жыл бұрын

Great job guys! With this, we are off to wonderful start, I think 😊

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

Very excited! Let's do this

@QuestLegacy 4 жыл бұрын

This sounds super interesting and the help of having those annotations seems invaluable for a modern reader. Love this video!

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

The annotations were necessary for someone like me! We put a ton of effort into the "Before you read..." videos. I hope it can help some people.

@princessEA7 2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much! It's great help!

@banksofnoon7867 3 жыл бұрын

This video is helping me a lot. I just started to explore the works of the modernist writers. Thanks.

@TheCodeXCantina 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I hope you enjoy

@spellboundtarot1264 3 жыл бұрын

You guys are AWESOME. ❤️❤️❤️ I really love ur channel. 🙌🏻

@TheCodeXCantina 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

@amusicalbookworm 4 жыл бұрын

Great info here! The only Joyce I’ve read is Dubliners. I’m glad to hear that was a good starting point! New to your channel and majorly impressed with your content!!

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome that you read Dubliners! Not everyone's cup of tea. Thank you for the compliment. I've toiled myself to death over being able to participate in #Stormalong2020. So many books, so little time.

@LittleBaldieVanZandt 3 ай бұрын

Should've watched this before starting the book, guess I gotta do a reread later on

@elijahwallace1822 8 күн бұрын

This is my favorite book. It was the first thing by Joyce that I read and I have read it twice. I might have to read it a third time now lol

@NevenaH 29 күн бұрын

Wonderful video! I wish I had seen it before I read the portrait as my first Joyce read. One minor thing though, the catholic church wasn't the only one before Luther, the orthodox church existed way before the divide in Christianity in the west. 😊

@MyAnnema Жыл бұрын

You are so awesome! Thanks so much.

@TheCodeXCantina Жыл бұрын

👍

@BrandonsBookshelf 2 жыл бұрын

Damn, so so good! I jsut did a review on Portrait and I'm sure that's why youtube served this up to me....really wish I would have seen this to get some more context before I published! Really intrigued to watch more now!

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

Joyce is the best.

@fash6353 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks I found it very useful

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@vinayaklohani9632 10 ай бұрын

Brilliant. From India.

@waelwael1912 26 күн бұрын

I still remember when I read it back in 2012 I couldn't understand it it's like philosophy book !!!

@jfarrahma2029 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your efforts ☀a Reader from Morocco

@TheCodeXCantina 3 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure. Cheers.

@pennygraham3767 4 жыл бұрын

And remember to just enjoy it as a thoroughly good read.

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

Penny Graham of course!

@herrklamm1454 4 жыл бұрын

Happy Bloomsday!

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

Herr Klamm Happy Bloomsday!!

@BookishTexan 4 жыл бұрын

Unbelievably this video made me want to read this book again. I didnt enjoy it when I read it many years ago. Not saying I'm rereading it. Just saying that you made me curious about what I would think the second time.

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

Read what you want. No pressure here.

@BookishTexan 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheCodeXCantina FOMO. I wanna hang with the cool kids.

@MicMeTV Жыл бұрын

This is amazing

@TheCodeXCantina Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words

@ramblingraconteur1616 4 жыл бұрын

Keeping with the emphasis of Catholicism and the experience of Julius Caesar’s Roman incursion into Britain with the eventual collision to Ireland is it okay to use the Julian calendar for Bloomsday?!? Asking for a friend . . . Great introduction, particularly on the novel as autobiography.

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

😂 I’m still debating whether to bring up the Italian Dante interpretive approach w hell/Beatrice but we’ll see what Noah and Lucas do. So many layered meanings in this...

@weaq84 9 ай бұрын

*Charles Stewart Parnell Amazing video, by the way. Just felt the need to correct this small mistake.

@TheCodeXCantina 9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@ItsTooLatetoApologize Жыл бұрын

I struggled with this book. It was my first Joyce novel and my edition didn’t have annotations. I’m also not sure if the manner he went about the stream of consciousness triggered my ADHD or something but wow, struggle. I feel I need to read this again because it sounds like I’m not appreciating for what it is. Thank you for the video.

@TheCodeXCantina Жыл бұрын

I hear you. Will you be making an initial video on it or are you waiting for a reread?

@ItsTooLatetoApologize Жыл бұрын

@@TheCodeXCantina I think I’m going to make an initial video, and try to be as honest about the struggle bus as possible. 😂

@lorenagodoyramos Жыл бұрын

Great video, thank you for all the tips before embarking on the journey of Reading Portrait. Can you specify which of the Penguin editions has footnotes? The Centennial edition I bought had no notes whatsoever and i had to return it, and another Penguin edition has notes on the back. Please share which one has footnotes. Thank you!

@TheCodeXCantina Жыл бұрын

My centennial has the footnotes? That’s strange

@adamevans8111 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, fellas. Doing my MA thesis on Portrait through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jamesonian Marxist analysis, and Žižek's Sublime Objects of Ideology. If you'd like some additional resources on Portrait, feel free to contact me! I'd love to hear y'all's take on Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.

@TheCodeXCantina 3 жыл бұрын

Ulysses seems to be inevitable though I fear it. Best of luck with your research.

@newhorizonsforfifty2833 8 ай бұрын

So when he creates these words and gets you to interpret them yourself, along with the hyper-specific nature of the locale, he's basically getting you to walk a mile in his shoes or to become familiar with the locale instead of judging it from a distance.

@bughead5615 3 жыл бұрын

Why aren't you guys more popular wtf

@TheCodeXCantina 3 жыл бұрын

I've been asking myself that question my whole life. Cheers.

@Idazle 3 жыл бұрын

I washed this video before setting out to read A Portrait and I've just watched it again after finishing the book. I think the video is extremely useful, specially before reading the book, but also after finishing it as a kind of wrap up. So, thank you guys for putting a lot of work and useful information in it. I must say though that I didn't read Dubliners before (as strongly advised in the video) and enjoy A Portrait all the same with the assistance of my edition's annotations. It's a superb book, although I agree that it gets deeper and denser towards the 4th and 5th chapter and demands a more careful reading than usual. Just one correction to Krypto's summary on Church history. The Catholic Church was not the only Christian Church until the 1570s as he says in the video. There were the Eastern Orthodox churches too, many of them older that the Roman Catholic branch of Christianity The Roman Catholic Church and their sister Orthodox Churches were in communion until 1054 when they split as the latter refused to acknowledge the primacy of the Bishop of Rome, that is, the Pope.

@TheCodeXCantina 3 жыл бұрын

That’s great that you enjoyed it. Thanks for the comment. Did he say it was the only one? I must have missed that part.

@Idazle 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheCodeXCantina It's in 26'35'' Cheers from Catholic Spain, so close in many aspects to Ireland 😉

@TheCodeXCantina 3 жыл бұрын

@@Idazle Thanks, sorry for missing that and not correcting it.

@Idazle 3 жыл бұрын

On second thought, Krypto is not actually saying the Catholic was the only Christian Church until 1579, but that there was only one Catholic Church (which seems rather obvious) until then, when Luther nailed his manifesto on the door of that German church which name I don't remember.

@TheCodeXCantina 3 жыл бұрын

@@Idazle perhaps! He has his degree in Catholic Studies and other religions but that doesn’t mean we can’t make mistakes or try to be more clear!

@deardavid7 2 жыл бұрын

Love Joyce and loved your video! Who are Noah and Lucas (Lukas?) that you guys talk about at the end? Where can one find the chapter-by-chapter videos?

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

Noah runs the channel "Everyone Who Reads it Must Converse" and Lucas runs "Bits of Lit" Their videos can be found here: kzfaq.info/sun/PLHg_kbfrA7YCzFzqmmcq3ivdQAbRAvonx

@deardavid7 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheCodeXCantina Thanks... I discovered that the video about Chapter 5 had been left out of this playlist of six videos. I found it here: m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n8d2lcd0xrzPhZs.html

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

@@deardavid7 oops, let me add that in. Thanks for pointing that out

@richarddefortuna2252 Жыл бұрын

I love what you're doing with this series. One question, though: are you suggesting the Joyce and Woolf are POST-Modernists and not Modernists? While I understand that their works utilize various innovations in narrative theory and narrative form, I wouldn't date the advent of Post-Modernism in Literature until the late 1950s/early 1960s or so, a la Thomas Pinchon and what came after. Thoughts?

@TheCodeXCantina Жыл бұрын

I think this one and one of the Dubliners videos I misspoke on that. It was a mistake though I agree they are ahead of their times!

@richarddefortuna2252 Жыл бұрын

@@TheCodeXCantina no worries! It's been a while since I had the time to engage with some of my old passions, great literature being one of them, and I was just curious if there was a shift in thinking with respect to Joyce's and Woolf's work. Thank you for responding!

@TheNerdyNarrative 4 жыл бұрын

If I were to try my hand at writing, I would definitely write about my life because there is SO much material to choose from to write a nice set of thrillers and horror novels. And you better believe I'd do just like James AND NAME EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!

@TheNerdyNarrative 4 жыл бұрын

Okay, he didn't name them all, but I sure would.

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

The Nerdy Narrative media0.giphy.com/media/9SIXFu7bIUYHhFc19G/giphy.gif?cid=4d1e4f29c90d7f7ae90449dcb525107eb508f87073295be4&rid=giphy.gif

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheNerdyNarrative My preOrder money is ready

@TheNerdyNarrative 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheCodeXCantina LOL! Probably the one that would get me the most money and guaranteed movie deal has to wait until we see if the Court if Appeals sends it to the Supreme Court. 👍

@suzann5312 Ай бұрын

Prior to the Roman Catholic church , was the Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian Church and many more, the smaller ones were wiped out by the Roman Catholic Church.

@bucklaw2 Жыл бұрын

Do you have links to the chapter breakdown?

@TheCodeXCantina Жыл бұрын

Playlist is pinned

@aysekardes8587 7 ай бұрын

🙏

@briantyson7095 2 жыл бұрын

What is that supposed to mean?

@thomashanly6339 5 ай бұрын

love this talk and i am reading the book just now need to correct a matter of fact in your talk at 21:44 or thereabouts IRELAND GAINED IT'S INDEPENDANCE FROM BRITIAN IN 1922 NOT 1937

@TheCodeXCantina 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. Fair challenge and I guess the distinction between constitutional monarchy between 1922 and 1937 should be better fleshed out. Thanks.

@Tolstoy111 Жыл бұрын

Will you guys ever do Ulysses?

@TheCodeXCantina Жыл бұрын

Yep, it’s up next

@havefunbesafe 2 жыл бұрын

I started with Finnegans Wake: now I’m cross eyed 😵.

@TheCodeXCantina 2 жыл бұрын

Oof! Rough starting spot

@dijonstreak Ай бұрын

" I consider myself a VERY intelligent perspn.." WJOA. i NEVER have heard anybody ever say that. !!!...but...ALL is forgiven....LOL. !!

@StriketheSunMD 4 жыл бұрын

god save us all

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

I will not serve

@bighardbooks770 4 жыл бұрын

_AAArrrrrhhhhh!_ _Non servium!_

@lostinabookcase3796 4 жыл бұрын

my brain always mixes this book up with Picture of Dorian Gray for some reason XD

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

Understandable

@deanie3824 4 жыл бұрын

Why didn't Krypto get the memo about the shirt??

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

Deanie I’m wondering the same thing...

@kryptoacid3663 4 жыл бұрын

Must have got lost in the mail...

@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace 4 жыл бұрын

Whoa, filming in the daytime! Don't you guys usually film at night? "I can't print what I can't understand"

@TheCodeXCantina 4 жыл бұрын

You're right. We film 7-9pm it just doesn't get dark until 9:30pm in Indiana these days.

@ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheCodeXCantina 😮😮😮

@bucklaw Жыл бұрын

You are right don't start with this book.

@garbagemonster3944 3 жыл бұрын

“kind of” a separation between church and state in the US 😂😂 trump literally won his election by suddenly becoming a good christian who talks about God. lol. what else do you mean by that?

@TheCodeXCantina 3 жыл бұрын