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 |
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| 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 |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 4217 |
| Release Date | Jul 1, 2003 |
| Most Recently Updated | Apr 4, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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