A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Overview
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was originally serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915. The semi-autobiographical novel recounts the story of Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s alter-ego, as he rejects his Irish and Catholic identity and makes his way as an artist. The name Stephen Dedalus is a reference to Stephen, the first Christian martyr, and Daedalus, the Greek craftsman who constructed wings for his son, Icarus.
Modern Library lists Portrait as the third-best English-language novel of the twentieth century. It is written in a flow-of-consciousness manner, employing Joyce’s modernist technique. The technique was employed by Joyce in Ulysses and had a profound influence on fiction writing in the twentieth century.
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- Was named third best English-language novel of the twentieth century
- Demonstrates Joyce’s early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique
- Helped define the Modernist literature movement
- Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Author: James Joyce
- Publisher: B. W. Huebsch
- Print Publication Date: 1921
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 299
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Young men › Fiction; Artists › Fiction; Dublin (Ireland) › Fiction
- Resource ID: LLS:PORTARTYOUNGJOYCE
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:08:22Z