A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce is a novel published in 1916. Written in a modernist style, it follows young Stephen Dedalus through his religious and intellectual awakening as he questions and rebels against Catholic and Irish conventions. The work traces Stephen's developing consciousness as he struggles with faith, identity, and artistic ambition, ultimately leading to his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. Joyce employs innovative techniques like free indirect speech to peer into his protagonist's evolving mind in this groundbreaking Künstlerroman. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Title A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man
Credits Col Choat. HTML version by Al Haines. Further corrections by Menno de Leeuw.
Reading Level Reading ease score: 79.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Autobiographical fiction
Subject Bildungsromans
Subject Young men -- Fiction
Subject Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction
Subject Artists -- Fiction
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EBook-No. 4217
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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