A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Text, Criticism, and Notes (Paperback)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Text, Criticism, and Notes Book Description

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, providing an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce. At its center are questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly inventive, this coming-of-age story is a tour de force of style and technique.

@Bildungsroman I'm in college. Cool. But I live at home with mom. That doesn't make me a tool, does it?
Nah, I'm totally cool. Look, I've got this cool tweed hat. Yeah, I'm cool. Totally.
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James Joyce has contributed to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Text, Criticism, and Notes as an author. James Joyce, the twentieth century's most influential novelist, was born in Dublin on February 2, 1882. The oldest of ten children, he grew up in a family that went from prosperity to penury because of his father's wastrel behavior. After receiving a rigorous Jesuit education, twenty-year-old Joyce renounced his Catholicism and left Dublin in 1902 to spend most of his life as a writer in exile in Paris, Trieste, Rome, and Zurich. On one trip back to Ireland, he fell in love with the now famous Nora Barnacle on June 16, the day he later chose as "Bloomsday" in his novel "Ulysses. "Nara was an u

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