Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180943789

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Pdf

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [1916] established James Joyce as a leading figure in literary modernism across Europe. The novel is set in the author’s homeland, Ireland, and narrates, in five episodes, the childhood of Stephen Dedalus. The plot is entirely based on Joyce’s own life and serves as a private manifesto, particularly through its sharp declaration of independence from Catholicism. Joyce pioneered a new way of writing novels, abandoning traditional narration for stream of consciousness and introducing his epiphanies—momentary revelations that, in their everydayness, hint at a larger context of life. Upon the recommendation of the American poet Ezra Pound, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was serialized in the magazine The Egoist in 1914/15 before being published as a book the following year. Today, more than a hundred years after its release, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is considered one of the most significant autobiographical texts in world literature. The Modern Library ranked it as the 3rd best English-language novel of the 20th century (with Joyce’s Ulysses as #1). JAMES JOYCE [1882-1941], Irish author, is a key figure in modernist literature with works such as Dubliners [1914], A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [1916], and Ulysses [1922].

Author : Joseph Heller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781849836517

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Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Man by Joseph Heller Pdf

Imagine an author who has become a legend in his own lifetime - all because of the novel he wrote in the first flush of youth. Novelist Eugene Pota is a cultural icon of the twentieth century, struggling to write what will be the last novel of his career. But what to write about when, like so many noted authors before him, all of Pota's output since that first, landmark novel has been scrutinized and dissected - and found wanting? PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST, AS AN OLD MAN follows Pota's efforts to settle on a subject for his final work. In his search, Heller - through Pota - pays homage to his favourite authors and discusses the problems that have plagued so many writers whose later works failed to live up to the successes of their first: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, to name but a few. It is a rare and enthralling look into the artist's search for creativity, a search that comes at a point in life when impotence - both sexual and spiritual - has become a frustrating fact. Joseph Heller must have known that this would be his final novel; it stands as a fitting testament to the life and works of a leading light in modern literature.

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0816617821

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Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector Pdf

Discusses life, time, beauty, experience, meaning, music, and art.

Author : Jessica Haight,Stephanie Robinson
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780385391030

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The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow by Jessica Haight,Stephanie Robinson Pdf

Fans of classic detective stories, The Mysterious Benedict Society, and the Secret Series will devour this illustrated middle-grade adventure that follows three curious sleuths as they investigate a mysterious, old house with some hidden secrets. Eleven-year-old Fairday Morrow is less than thrilled that her family is moving thousands of miles from civilization to the quiet country town of Ashpot, Connecticut, where she’s absolutely certain she’ll die of boredom. As if leaving New York City and her best friend, Lizzy, the only other member of the elite Detective Mystery Squad (DMS), weren’t bad enough, Fairday is stuck living in the infamous Begonia House, a creepy old Victorian with dark passageways, a gigantic dead willow tree, and a mysterious past. Before she can even unpack, strange music coming from behind a padlocked door leads Fairday up a spiral staircase and into a secret room, where an ancient mirror, a brass key, and a strange picture of a red-haired lady are the first in a series of clues that takes the members of the Detective Mystery Squad on an amazing adventure. "The novel builds to an exciting climax that takes magic in stride and suggests that further mysteries await the DMS trio."-Publishers Weekly "This paranormal mystery will be of interest to young readers looking for something spooky but not violent or scary."-Booklist

Author : John Blades
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCAL:B4410183

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James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by John Blades Pdf

Author : Don Gifford
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520046108

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Joyce Annotated by Don Gifford Pdf

This second edition is revised and enlarged from Notes for Joyce: "Dubliners" and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1977-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106015176719

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Pdf

Joyce's semi-autobiographical chronicle of Stephen Dedalus' passage from university student to "independent" artist is at once a richly detailed, amusing, and moving coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and technique, and a profound examination of the Irish psyche and society.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780714548630

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Chamber Music and Other Poems by James Joyce Pdf

Universally known for his groundbreaking prose - especially for the monumental novel Ulysses and its depictions of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century - James Joyce started off as a writer of lyrical poetry, a genre which he never abandoned in his lifetime and which informs and enriches the rest of his literary production.This volume, which includes Joyce's first published book, Chamber Music, as well as his later collection Pomes Penyeach and several other uncollected poems, reveals a lesser-known facet of the great modernist's artistic career and a glimpse into his poetical sensibility.

Author : Richard Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444342949

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A Companion to James Joyce by Richard Brown Pdf

A Companion to James Joyce offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce's writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures. Brings together 25 newly-commissioned essays by some of the top scholars in the field Explores Joyce's distinctive cultural place in Irish, British and European modernism and the growing impact of his work elsewhere in the world A comprehensive and timely Companion to current debates and possible areas of future development in Joyce studies Offers new critical readings of several of Joyce's works, including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1853260061

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Pdf

"James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is one of the twentieth century's great coming-of-age novels. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Walter Gabler's acclaimed text and is accompanied by his introduction and textual notes. John Paul Riquelme provides explanatory notes to deepen the reader's appreciation for Joyce's masterpiece." ""Backgrounds and Contexts" is topically organized: "Political Nationalism: Irish History, 1798-1916," "The Irish Literary and Cultural Revival," "Religion," and "Aesthetic Backgrounds." Fourteen illustrations accompany the documents." ""Criticism" begins with John Paul Riquelme's overview of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man's structure. Twelve diverse interpretations of his work follow, by Kenneth Burke, Umberto Eco, Hugh Kenner, Helene Cixous, John Paul Riquelme, Karen Lawrence, Maud Ellmann, Bonnie Kime Scott, Joseph Valente, Marian Eide, Pericles Lewis, adn Jonathan Mulrooney. A Selected Bibliography is also included."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Brandon Presser
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541758599

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The Far Land by Brandon Presser Pdf

For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the world. In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, had disappeared into the night with their Tahitian companions. Pitcairn Island was the perfect hideaway from British authorities, but after nearly two decades of isolation its secret society had devolved into a tribalistic hellscape; a real-life Lord of the Flies, rife with depravity and deception. Seven generations later, the island’s diabolical past still looms over its 48 residents; descendants of the original mutineers, marooned like modern castaways. Only a rusty cargo ship connects Pitcairn with the rest of the world, just four times a year. In 2018, Brandon Presser rode the freighter to live among its present-day families; two clans bound by circumstance and secrets. While on the island, he pieced together Pitcairn’s full story: an operatic saga that holds all who have visited in its mortal clutch—even the author. Told through vivid historical and personal narrative, The Far Land goes beyond the infamous Mutiny on the Bounty, offering an unprecedented glimpse at life on the fringes of civilization, and how, perhaps, it’s not so different from our own.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557003372

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Pdf

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. This book is reproduction of this 1916 first edition. It depicts the formative years in the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and a pointed allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology, Daedalus. Joyce's novel traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus as he begins to question and rebel against the Catholic and Irish conventions he has been brought up in. He finally leaves for Paris to pursue his calling as an artist. The work pioneers some of Joyce's modernist techniques that would later come to fruition in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. The Modern Library ranked Portrait as the third greatest English-language novel of the twentieth century.

Author : Weldon Thornton
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815625871

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The Antimodernism of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by Weldon Thornton Pdf

Thornton takes a fresh look at important psychological and cultural issues in this novel, arguing that although it may be a classic text of literary modernism, it is a fundamentally antimodernist work. This comprehensive and thoughtful book provides readers with a new cultural critique and intellectual history of 'Portrait', which promises to become one of the major discussions of the novel.

Author : John G. Coyle
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0231115318

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James Joyce, Ulysses, a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by John G. Coyle Pdf

Essays to help you understand and appreciate the works of James Joyce.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143108245

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Pdf

For the centennial of its original publication, a beautiful Deluxe Edition of one of Joyce’s greatest works—featuring a foreword by Karl Ove Knausgaard, author the New York Times bestselling six-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, which has been likened to a 21st-century Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce’s novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait of the young Joyce himself. At its center lie questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly inventive in style, the novel subtly and beautifully orchestrates the patterns of quotation and repetition instrumental in its hero’s quest to create his own character, his own language, life, and art: “to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.” This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, published for the novel’s centennial, is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author’s original wishes. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.