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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"”.
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Contexts for <i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i>
<p><em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</em> is a modern classic. Its modernity places it in close temporal proximity to the present reader, while its classic nature ostensibly attests to its timelessness and perennial quality. Yet, it is precisely these two properties that have rendered …
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Nothung up my sleeve : the Wagnerian impulses in James Joyce's Ulysses and A portrait of the artist as a young man
The Introduction isolates the particular focus of the dissertation - viz. the importance of the Wagnerian themes and allusions in James Joyce's Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, considering existing studies of the same subject, as well as elucidating the structure and argument of …
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Buffoons and bullies: James Joyce's priests in "Stephen Hero" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", a study of revision
Irony and satire in two of James Joyce's works.
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Buffoons and bullies: James Joyce's priests in "Stephen Hero" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", a study of revision
Irony and satire in two of James Joyce's works.
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"Faithful Departed": Tracing the Themes of Exile and Betrayal through James Joyce's Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Exiles
… left Ireland in 1904 because he felt betrayed by the publishing industry, several close friends, and the Irish Catholic Church. Although he returned to visit four times, he remained an artist in exile until his death in 1941. Manifest in his writing are feelings of exile and betrayal which reflect …
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Creator and Creation: Artistic Development in Herman Melville’s Pierre; or, the Ambiguities and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
<p>This study focuses on the primary protagonists of Herman Melville’s <em>Pierre; or, the Ambiguities</em> (1852) and James Joyce’s <em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</em> (1916), Pierre Glendinning and Stephen Dedalus, as well as Isabel Banford, a supporting character in Melville’s …
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The Pertinence of Molly Bloom to the Aesthetic Quest of Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man offers an intimate account of the development of Stephen's artistic perspective, but it by no means concludes with his artistic maturity. Artistic immaturity is one theme which bounds the book.
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Esthetics of Dedalus and Bloom: nineteenth century roots, structural metaphors, and resolutions
<p>This study explores James Joyce's use of esthetics as a structuring source in <em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</em>, especially as those esthetics derive from similarities and references to and analogues from the nineteenth century tradition of English poets, novelists, and essayists …
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"We Are the Thing Itself": Embodiment in the Künstlerromane of Bennett, Joyce, and Woolf
This dissertation is a study of the relationship between the modern Künstlerromane of Arnold Bennett, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf and issues of embodiment. Born of the field of aesthetics, the literary genre of Künstlerroman inherits its conflicts. The chief dilemma of the form is how an …
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The 'Uncreated' Voice of a Nation: James Joyce and the Twentieth Century Irish Bildungsroman
The ‘Uncreated’ Voice of a Nation: James Joyce and the Twentieth Century Irish Bildungsroman places James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in conversation with numerous later twentieth century Bildungsromane to argue that texts by Edna O’Brien, John McGahern, Roddy Doyle, Patrick …
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The city as metaphor in three works by James Joyce
<p>To remark that images of Dublin are ubiquitous throughout the works of James Joyce is, of course, to state the obvious. In <em>Dubliners</em>, <em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</em>, and <em>Ulysses</em>, the location of the action is carefully described, and the reader is presented …
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Meaning and Function of Charles Stewart Parnell in the Writings of James Joyce
To any reader of Ulysses or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it is obvious that James Joyce makes extensive use of mythological patterns to organize his material and supply it with deeper levels of meaning. Why Joyce employs this method is explained by T. S. Eliot: | "In using the myth, in …
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Dedalus And Icarus: The Influence of James Joyce on the Poetry of Hart Crane
<p>This dissertation is a pioneer study of the influence of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses on Hart Crane's White Buildings. As such, it is both an influence study and a close reading of Crane's finest poems in a new light.</p><p>The first part of the essay (the …
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Towards a modernist aesthetic : dialectical modes of representation in the early modern novel
This thesis contests the widely-held view that literary modernism is a late manifestation of the romantic-symbolist tradition, arguing that the modern novel's self-reflexive preoccupation with the materiality of language is incompatible with the essentialist premises of romantic-symbolist …
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I go to encounter for the millionth time : the role of revision in Joyce's exploration of identity by Erin M. Fitzgerald.
Introduction: James Joyce is perhaps the most talked about and least read major writer in the English language. Virtually every modernist class and every book or article on Joyce eventually reaches a point where the professor or author admits this adverse truth. Joyce's dense prose demands a …