The [Walking?] Dead

The Dead, 3-59.

I could start talking about how I slightly expected this to be about zombies, but then I'd be giving nothing on how I felt about this section of the book.

My attention was immediately caught by the quote on page 16 and 17, so I decided to pause my reading and write about this. The quote by Joyce in his discussion of genre in Portrait begins on page 16 with "Art" and ends on page 17 with "human imagination". This quote stuck out to me because of my experience with the arts and I was able to relate to all three parts mentioned; lyrical, dramatic, and the epical form. The quote says that the lyrical form is the "form wherein he artist presents his image in immediate relation to himself", the epical form is the "form wherein he represents his image in mediate relation to himself and to others", and the dramatic form is the "form wherein he presents his image in immediate relation to others." Reading all of the descriptions, my first thought is of monologues and the ones I performed or saw others perform while involved in theatre in high school. The lyrical monologue reminds me of a monologue from the play The Fifth Sun that a boy named Preston did acting as a priest, speaking to himself but portraying his character to the audience. I did a monologue in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, that was both speaking to myself and also addressed the audience, as spoken of in the epical monologue. The dramatic monologue most reminds me of the improvisation shows my high school used to put on where the audience was directly spoken to.