The Portrait Of A Artist As A Young Man

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781454954620

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

James Joyce’s deeply personal and “most memorable novel” (H. G. Wells) detailing the spiritual and artistic awakening of Stephen Dedalus, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Classics line. James Joyce’s semi-autobiographical first novel explores the author’s own love-hate relationship with Ireland through Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s literary alter ego. Dedalus yearns to be an artist, but must first overcome the aspects of Irish society, like school and the church, that he feels restrains his creativity and stifles his soul. Joyce’s use of experimental literary techniques, including stream of consciousness, is on full display in his first novel, which he further develops in his later works, Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake.

Author : Mark A. Wollaeger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195150766

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James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Mark A. Wollaeger Pdf

This casebook offers a comprehensive introduction to this landmark in modern fiction. It includes an introductory overview of the work's composition and early reception; classic essays by Hugh Kenner, Patrick Parrinder, Wayne Booth, Fritz Senn, Michael Levenson, and Hélène Cixous; and a newly revised and expanded version of Maud Ellmann's "Polytropic Man."

Author : Joseph Heller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Weldon Thornton
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : James Joyce
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Good Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547806448

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ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series) by James Joyce Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus). Joyce divided Ulysses into 18 chapters or "episodes". At first glance much of the book may appear unstructured and chaotic; Joyce once said that he had "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant", which would earn the novel "immortality". James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, the short-story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake.

Author : John Blades
Publisher : Penguin Mass Market
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : 42,5 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 : Don Gifford
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Mike Selby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538115541

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Freedom Libraries by Mike Selby Pdf

This book delves into how Freedom Libraries were at the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, and the remarkable courage of the people who used them. As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, numerous libraries were desegregated on paper only, and there was another virtually unheard of struggle— the right to read.

Author : Richard Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : 47,6 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 : James Joyce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : John G. Coyle
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,6 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.