Before Daybreak: "After the Race" and the Origins of Joyce's Art

Appendix: Schema for "After the Race"

Appendix Schema for “After the Race” 274 · Appendix Historical Figure Work Theme Voice Touchstone Symbol Symbolic Action Art / Discipline James Joyce “Trust Not Appearances ,” Chamber Music III, Fournier Interview, “The Holy Office” Rivalry with Gogarty & sympathy with Griffith Griffith as editor of United Irishman One of “a series of epicleti” & “the worst” Thomas Street, Car Race, Kingstown Harbour Gordon Bennett Cup Race, Royal Visit, Emmet Centennial Essay, lyric poetry, journalism, satiric broadside “After the Race” Censure of high-end spending & colonial display Stephen Dædalus, superior ironist “gratefully oppressed,” “pots of money,” “Daybreak” Carr, horse, map mirror , dawn, silence Silent tour of Emmet’s Dublin, game of nap Modern short story, classical rhetoric Emily Leslie “My First Automobile Ride” Pleasures of wealth Social tourist “an intoxicating delight” Motorcar Seduction by canny foreigner Mild escapade Arthur Griffith Resurrection of Hungary Devolution of United Kingdom Political agitator “the brass band of the denationalised nobles” Dual crown Self-reliance Comparative political history Rudyard Kipling Kim The Great Game Colonial witness “one great game for a finish” Great Wheel, Red Bull, River Arrow Political Intrigue, quest for personal light Colonial novel Robert Emmet Speech from the dock Personal moral vindication Patriot & martyr “my race is run . . . the charity of its silence” Gallows, grave, epitaph 1803 Rebellion Extempore oratory Publius Ovidus Naso Metamorphoses I 750–II 328 Perpetual change, the folly of youth All-knowing poet “Sors tua mortalis . . . non est mortale quod optas” Chariot, heavens, sun Phaeton’s celestial career, crash, and death Epic poetry: Latin Alexandre Dumas, père The Three Musketeers Gallantry, male bonding Romantic amuseur “Tous pour un, un pour tous” Sword, horse Intrigue, war, and high jinks Historical novel François Villon Le Testament Social alienation Social outcast “Pauvre Villon ,” “ordure amons” Poverty Villon’s criminalization Lyric poetry Patrick Kennedy “Jemmy Doyle and the Fairy Palace” Reality of the world of the sídh Seanachaí “Welcome, Mr. Doyle!” Food, drink, dance, sleep Fairy seduction of Jimmy Fairy tale Madame Blavatsky Isis Unveiled Atman/Maya Mahatma “to unmask mysteries of the universe” Chhaya, seven, circle, aum Allegory of the occult Visionary report and prophecy Saint Paul Letters to Romans, Corinthians 1, Timothy Christian hope & moral discipline Visionary witness “I have run the race” “hope does not disappoint” Mirror, footrace Witness to Christ’s death & resurrection Theology Dante Alighieri Inferno 34 Treachery, divine justice Christian pilgrim “A riveder le stelle” Star of dawn Traitors’ punishment , Dante’s exit Epic poetry: Italian Friedrich Nietzsche Daybreak Humanistic morality Refuter of idealism & pessimism “So many days that have not yet broken” Recurring dawn Philosophy Schema for “After the Race” · 275 Technique History Place Protagonist Antagonist Supporting Figure 1 Supporting Figure 2 Supporting Figure 3 Supporting Figure 4 Supporting Figure 5 Genre experiments, classical tradition 1896– September 1904 Clongowes, Joyce family homes, Paris, Martello tower Oliver St. John Gogarty James Augustine Joyce Samuel Chevenix Trench Thomas Hughes Kelly, Gordon Bennett , Cardinal Farley Henri Fournier Camille Jenatzy William Field Free indirect discourse July 2–3, 1903 Inchicore Dame Street Doyle home Shelbourne Kingstown Jimmy Villona Routh Farley Ségouin Rivière Mr. Doyle Escapist journalism 1902 The colonies, France mécanicien Argument from historical analogy 1861–1904 Budapest, Vienna, Dublin Deák Esterhazy Monarchy Irish Party MPs Realistic narrative 1891–99 British India Kimball O’Hara Teshoo Lama Colonel Creighton Epidedic speech July–Sept. 1803: Emmet Rebellion Green Street Courthouse, Dublin Leonard McNally Lord Norbury Epic verse: narrative Mythic Prehistory of the Gods Greece & North Africa Phaethon Anonymous Insulter Helios Prose romance 1626: Siege of La Rochelle France D’Artagnan Porthos Buckingham Aramis Athos Learned & colloquial verse c. 1400 Paris Irish oral redaction of Celtic bruidhean tale Medieval County Wexford Queen of the Fairies An fairceallach talmhaí Syncretic Hermetic speculation Aeon of the Fourth Root-Race The “Positive unreality” of the world Hortatory, epistolary 30 ADParousia Rome, Corinth Mammon Terza rima Eternity Ninth Circle of Hell Satan Virgil Brutus Cassius Judas Aphoristic prose Eternal return ...