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Dec 8, 2001 · The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce. ... Author: James Joyce. Release Date: December 8, 2001 [eBook #4217]
Exiles. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1916. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology 's consummate craftsman.
Joyce’s works are notoriously difficult to adapt to film, but a 1977 film version of the novel with a largely Irish cast conveyed Joyce’s words and ideas well. Explore the full plot summary , an in-depth character analysis of Stephen Dedalus , and explanations of important quotes from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man .
Portrait of the Artist is largely autobiographical: Stephen’s life corresponds in most details to Joyce’s. Like Stephen, he was born in Dublin to a merry, profligate father and devout Catholic mother, the eldest of ten surviving children; like his fictional counterpart, he attended Clongowes Wood College, Belvedere College, and University College Dublin.
Dec 1, 2018 · This edition of Joyce's classic novel presents the 1964 text, newly corrected by Chester G. Anderson, along with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised for a student audience - that read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from five contemporary critical perspectives: Psychoanalytic Criticism by Sheldon Brivic, Reader-Response ...
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Article History. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, autobiographical novel by James Joyce, published serially in The Egoist in 1914–15 and in book form in 1916; considered by many the greatest bildungsroman in the English language. The novel portrays the early years of Stephen Dedalus, who later reappeared as one of the main characters ...
