James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a loosely autobiographical novel that tells the story of the artistic awakening of Stephen Dedalus as he begins to rebel against his family and his Irish Catholic background.
Plot Synopsis
Despite his initial homesickness, Stephen Dedalus enjoys his strict boarding school Clongowes until debt forces his family to move to Dublin and him to attend a prestigious day school. Initially Dedalus focuses on hedonistic endeavors before becoming very religious. After being told he should enter the priesthood, Stephen realizes that the priesthood and his background conflict with his desires. He finally leaves Ireland to work on his art.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Author Information
- Mahalo's Guide to James Joyce
- Wikipedia: James Joyce
- The James Joyce Center: Biography
- Araby: James Joyce Timeline
- The Modern Word: Joycean Chronology
- TIME: The TIME 100: James Joyce
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Fast Facts
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Genre
Autobiographical novel
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Serialized in the ''Egoist''
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Novel publication
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Publisher: B.W. Huebsch
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Pages
approximately 384
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ISBN 0-14-243734-4
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Perspective
third-person narrative
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Setting
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Uses modernist techniques
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Rejected the first time it was submitted to a publisher
