Winterwood: A Portrait of the Artist as a Postmodern Pariah

Abstract

Postmodernism is often seen as following sequentially from modernism but I would agree with Lyotard’s contention that postmodernism is actually ‘a part of the modern.’ Lyotard goes on to state that a work ‘can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but the nascent state, and this state is constant.’ So with these interlacings in mind, I would like to look at the two novels and begin with the issue of the speaking subject in each book – Stephen Dedalus and Redmond Hatch.