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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Like much of James Joyce's work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a fictional re-creation of the Irish writer's own life and early environment. The experiences of the novel's young hero, Stephen Dedalus, unfold in astonishingly vivid scenes that seem freshly recalled from life and provide a powerful portrait of the coming of age of a young man of unusual intelligence, sensitivity, and character.
The interest of the novel is deepened by Joyce's telling portrayals of an Irish upbringing and schooling, the Catholic Church and its priesthood, Parnell and Irish politics, encounters with the conflicting roles of art and morality (problems that would follow Joyce throughout his life), sexual experimentation and its aftermath, and the decision to leave Ireland.
Rich in details that offer vital insights into Joyce's art, this masterpiece of semiautobiographical fiction remains essential reading in any program of study in modern literature.


Reprint of the B. W. Huebsch, Inc., New York, 1916 edition.
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Like much of James Joyce's work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a fictional re-creation of the Irish writer's own life and early environment. The experiences of the novel's young hero, Stephen Dedalus, unfold in astonishingly vivid scenes that seem freshly recalled from life and provide a powerful portrait of the coming of age of a young man of unusual intelligence, sensitivity, and character.
The interest of the novel is deepened by Joyce's telling portrayals of an Irish upbringing and schooling, the Catholic Church and its priesthood, Parnell and Irish politics, encounters with the conflicting roles of art and morality (problems that would follow Joyce throughout his life), sexual experimentation and its aftermath, and the decision to leave Ireland.
Rich in details that offer vital insights into Joyce's art, this masterpiece of semiautobiographical fiction remains essential reading in any program of study in modern literature.


Reprint of the B. W. Huebsch, Inc., New York, 1916 edition.
irish history catholic culture nationalism; modern literature;collector's library;english language;literary modernism;leather bound; banned books; artistic temperament;literary terminology;literary experience;finnegans wake;literary realism;literary masterpieces;literary criticism;wild angel;old irish;jesuit school;english literature;bird girl;aesthetic theory;buck mulligan;recreate life;consciousness technique;language changes;catholic boy;dead poets;century ireland;baby tuckoo;greek mythology;religious devotion;throat ached;uncreated conscience;ethical qualms;leave ireland;woman standing;college english;leopold bloom;literary classic;roman catholicism;christmas dinner;sexual experience;university student;sexual awakening;millionth time;late nineteenth;boy growing;alter ego;virginia woolf;college students;human mind;vivid descriptions;catholic church;valancourt;apollodorus;gre;20th century;dedalus;achilles;dostoevsky;clongowes;moocow;norton;modernist;clontarf;artificer;viking;belvedere;frankenstein;boland;reeling;caulfield;smithy;penguin;dubliners;oxford;textbook;dickens;seasons;holden;icarus;invisible;heron;rector;priesthood;aesthetics;vocation;sinful;sermon;semi-autobiographical;stream-of-consciousness;cliff;epiphany;stream;autobiographical;post modern literature;college english literature;contemporary literary criticism;byron;aquinas;jim norton;finnegan;stephen dedalus;dublin;ireland;paris;england;
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