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Literature
Simply put, stream of consciousness is a style of narration that seeks to mirror the messy, random, often illogical form of human thought. Thus, stream of consciousness often defies conventional...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
In James Joyce’s influential modernist bildungsroman A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce portrays the life of young Stephen Dedalus as he struggles with his simultaneous religious and...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The title of James Joyce's novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, refers to it's main protagonist, Stephen Dedalus. The novel follows Stephen throughout his childhood and adolescence,...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stream of consciousness is a style of writing that strives to mimic the actual flow of real human thought. Often, stream of consciousness narratives are messy, lack a logical structure, and/ or...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce was obsessed with both Irish history and Irish politics, and he used the two topics extensively in all of his works. In his novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, one of the...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is chiefly concerned with describing the development of Stephen Dedalus not only as a young man, but also as a writer and an artist. In many...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
For being such a slim novel, James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is open to a wide variety of interpretations. I think it's helpful to approach it from a broad perspective to...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stream of consciousness is a radical style perfected by modernist writers like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. In general, stream of consciousness is a style of writing that mimics the way real...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The ending of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is fairly complex, and it takes a bit of time to sift through its many layers. But, on the surface, the essential meaning that...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The ideas about art that emerge from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are not depressing. They affirm the power of creation in a world that desperately needs it. Through Stephen, Joyce...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The third person point of view is utilized in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Nevertheless, this does not mean there is an omniscient narrative voice like in many literary works before Joyce...
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Literature
I think that one distinct way in which Joyce can be seen as embracing the "mythical method" is in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I think that the construction of Stephen Dedalus is an...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The implications of Stephen's invocation at the end of the narrative reflect how he rejects what he sees as external imposition upon his identity. Earlier in Chapter 5, Stephen had emerged to this...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
This passage is extremely important to the book as a whole. It occurs in chapter 4, when Stephen has been mulling over what path to take in life. Among other things, he has been contemplating...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The overall setting of this novel is Dublin and its environs at the turn of the twentieth century. There are the various Daedalus family homes, which dwindle in size and grandeur as the family's...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce's writing is influenced by his Irish roots and his understanding of the effects of poverty on a person's development. His literary purpose, he believes, was never to develop a moral...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
In 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' James Joyce tells the story of a boy growing up in the city of Dublin, Ireland. The novel was wrtten against a background of dreadful poverty in that city...
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James Joyce
Considered a thinly-veiled autobiography, James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man provides insightful glimpses into the mind of one of history’s most fascinating authors, an Irish...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The context of the line is a point when Stephen awakens to the spiritual dimension both within himself and in the world. The continual repetition of the infernal condemnation of hell and the...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The primary context of the quote is how Stephen recognizes the spiritually limited condition of his being in the world. For Stephen, his visits to brothels and embrace of the sexual appetites have...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
There is much in way of excesses in chapter three of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. John Blades suggests that chapter three is a chapter of "excess." The sins that Stephen...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
This quote comes from the third chapter of this novel, and is used to express the intense guilt that Stephen feels after engaging in his period of debauchery. This quote uses a very strong simile...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
This quote comes from Chapter 1 of this excellent novel, which is made rather difficult to understand because of the way that, stylistically, Joyce is trying to achieve something that is rather...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The novel 'Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man is regarded as one of the earliest Modernist novels. The author, James Joyce, wrote the novel partly as a response to the older realist style of the...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Characterization in Joyce's most popular novel is done indirectly. We know that Stephen Dedalus has gotten older and is in different phases of his life because what he says and does is different,...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The point of view is an interesting one. Point of view is a way of identifying the voice through which the story is directed or focalized. In this case, the reader is directed to look at the story...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Critics agree that the most important stylistic element of Joyce's novel is structure. Joyce deliberately attempted to create a new style of novel by rejecting the convention of plot. Instead of a...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
As the end of Chapter 3 makes clear, Stephen Dedalus experiences an epiphany that leads him to believe that he will dedicate the rest of his life to religion. Ironically, in spite of his initial...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Marian Eide takes a view of this text that sees the various women as different representations or models of Ireland. She argues that Emma, the idealised woman that Stephen believes he loves, is an...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is a type of novel known as a Bildungsroman or story of the coming of age of a protagonist. Although in some cases it can have a heroic...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce’s autobiographical novel definitely qualifies as a “Bildungsroman”, a novel about growing from boy to man, just as Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies. Stephen Daedalus goes from...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Contrary to the general themes taken by writers of his time, James Joyce has experimented much with the theme of “Sexuality” in his works. In A Portrait of the artist as a young man, the...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is written in the genre known as "Bildungsroman", a German term meaning "formation novel". It is a genre in which the focus is not on plot...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Yes. It is. As also are many of James Joyce's works. It is a stream of consciousness novel because the narrator is not only telling a story, but also having a catharsis by expressing his state of...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by Jame Joyce, is a 1916 novel that loosely covers parts of Joyce's own life. While the novel is written in the stream-of-consciousness style that made...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The main female character in this important novel is that of Emma, who only seems to appear as part of fragments of Stephen's earliest childhood memories. He certainly is never able to connect with...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
These are three very interesting texts. If you are looking for a common theme between them, I would personally be tempted to approach them from the perspective of how the characters develop and...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I have not seen “formation” as a literary term in any scholarship, but Portrait is definitely a Bildungsroman, the (German) term generally used to describe novels that follow the growth of the...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
You might like to think about the way in which Chapter Five, the last chapter, represents a development of Stephen's role as an artist that he chooses in Chapter Four. In this last Chapter, Stephen...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Daedelus is commonly known as the artificer, or architect. When reading the novel, consider the protagonist of the work, Stephan Deadalus, as the person who needs/wants to develop his artistics...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen can only understand his own sense of self through the idea of escape in the narrative. Simply put, Ireland is a land that is filled with more of "yesterdays" than tomorrows for Stephen....
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Then at the door of the castle the rector had shaken hands with his father and mother, his soutane fluttering in the breeze, and the car had driven off with his father and mother on it. They...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I think that the message that comes out of Joyce's work and the manner in which it is delivered both reflect the modern concept of the novel. The most dominant element in which this is present is...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce in this work of fiction is talking about the making of an artist. This novel is a bildungsroman, which means we see the growth and development of a character usually from his childhood to his...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Oddly enough, I don't recall ever seeing the word "epiphany" in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. His work is famous for its epiphanies, as is Dubliners, but I don't believe he...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Point of view is an extremely important aspect of Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. It's written in third person limited, but those limits imposed on the initial chapter are expanded to...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen's epiphanies mostly involve sex or religion, so you're off to a good start. In the first chapter, Stephen realizes that he can have a voice, but he's still not comfortable with that voice...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
If we took Joyce's discussion in his work, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," then epiphany has to be a moment where one gains insight into oneself and their place in the world. A part of...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Yes - Stephen is the moocow. In the first section of the first chapter, we get the first glimpse of Stephen's observation. The narrator says "he was baby tuckoo" meaning that his father always told...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Yes, absolutely. James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man is often considered as an 'aesthetic autobiography'. It is a kind of a bildungsroman which shows us the development of...
