‘Bodily Weakness’ and the ‘Free Boy’: Physicality as Subversive Agent in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

‘I’ll be judge, I’ll be jury’: ‘Tail’-Telling, Imperialism and the Other in Alice in Wonderland

“…But there is a problem with that notion if we take it too simply: it presumes, somewhat romantically, that the child's subjectivity actually exists independently of the social framework. This is an idea that any postmodernist would dispute, and indeed a lot of Modernist writers as well: elsewhere I have demonstrated the significance of social structures in framing and indeed constructing the character of Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, for instance (Webb 1998). John Stephens posits that 'the subject exists as an individual, but that existence is within a dialectical relationship with sociality.…”