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" The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. "
Eau sur eau: les dictionnaires de Mallarmé, Flaubert, Bataille, Michaux ... - Page 94
by Christophe Lamiot - 1997 - 172 pages
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce - 1916 - 314 pages
...from the human imagination. The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains...of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. — — Trying to refine them also out of existence — said Lynch. A fine rain began to fall from...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce - 1916 - 312 pages
...from the human imagination. The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains...refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.-1— Trying to refine them also out of existence — said Lynch. A fine rain began to...
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James Joyce, a Critical Introduction

Harry Levin - 1941 - 276 pages
...from the human imagination. The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains...of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. This progress you will see easily in the succession of Joyce's works. The cry becomes a cadence in...
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"Das erlesene Selbst" in der autobiographischen Schrift: zu Politik und ...

Antje Kley - 2001 - 418 pages
...widersetzt er sich, so Jeffrey Berman, "the Joycean injunction of the impersonal Godlike artist who 'remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence'". 5 Roth tut dies, jedoch ohne vermeintlich unmittelbar autobiographische Entsprechungen an die Stelle...
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The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Ronald Carter, John McRae - 2001 - 598 pages
...not simply give ditect expression to his reelings. He compared the artist to the God of cteanon who 'remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of exisrence, indifferent, paring his fingernails'. April 26 Mother is putring my new secondhand clothes...
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Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language: A Critical and Historical Study

Gerald L. Bruns - 2001 - 314 pages
...of impersonality which brackets the artist, making of him a god who dwells, in the now famous words, "within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, paring his fingernails." The parody, in effect, calls the artist back into existence — for to Beckett...
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Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West: Psychic Distance in Comparative ...

Steve Odin - 2001 - 310 pages
...petsonality of the artist . . . refines itself out of exisrence, impetsonalises itself, so to speak. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind ot beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of exisrence, indifferent, paring his fingernails....
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Selected Writings of John V. Kelleher on Ireland a

316 pages
...withered soul, employs a vocabulary already saturated with meaning from repeated use. When he says The artist, like the God of the creation, remains...of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails, we may note that fingernails have been pared before — and will be pared again, as in Ulysses, where...
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Joyce and the Joyceans

Morton P. Levitt - 2002 - 230 pages
...suppose, a biographer begins with or confronts a legend, a myth. Stephen Dedalus insists that the true artist, "like the God of the creation, remains within...refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."20 But in reality Joyce was no more aloof or invisible within his work than any other...
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Culture, 1922: The Emergence of a Concept

Marc Manganaro - 2009 - 243 pages
...Proximity, life enmired, produces distance — Malinowski's ethnographer becomes Joyce's "artist," who, "like the God of the creation, remains within or behind...of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails" (215). Joyce critics have sometimes gone to great, even absurd, lengths to claim Joyce's omnipotent...
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