Dante's "The Hermaphroditic Joyce"
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One of the most powerful nuances of any writing is the dialogue within
the story. In literature, it is all too often that characters live only in
the jaded voice of the author and never truly develop as their own, or are
not strongly opinionated in a manner which contrasts the opinions of the
writ ....
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.... in the ch aracters of women. Joyce's Dante
Riordan's words and thoughts are true to those of literate twentieth
century women.
Although a short-lived character in Portrait, Dante Riordan, in a brief
amount of time emits an apparently important and mysterious aura, the aura
of a woman. Judging from the studies of twentieth century linguists,
Joyce's brief representation of Dante through speech is nearly flawless. To
more lucidly understand this, one must carefully examine some of the ....
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