Date of Award
Fall 12-6-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Maggie Greaves
Second Advisor
Marc C. Conner
Abstract
In this paper, I propose that James Joyce reveals the ways in which artists registered the rising imposition of public time within schools which subsequently contributed to the mechanization of art and an emphasis on original production. Then, Sally Rooney helps us to see that these anxieties are still present in what Ian Kidd has labeled our “culture of speed” (339). Like the literary modernists, we are afraid that humans have been mechanized with the sole motivation of efficient production which leaves no time for creative thought and innovation. In response to these concerns, we have placed a great amount of pressure on a need for originality, but Rooney proposes that instead of resisting the past, we should let it in to our artistic processes. By doing so, we will return to a love for art which will be the driving force in our contemporary success.
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Recommended Citation
Condry-Power, Alice, "Trapped in Time: Examining the Academy's Temporal Confines in the Works of James Joyce and Sally Rooney" (2023). English Honors Theses. 75.
https://creativematter.skidmore.edu/eng_stu_schol/75