Religion in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Stream of Consciousness and Epiphanies in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

An omniscient narrative voice guides to the reader of A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man through a continuous flow (many times without following the chronological order of the events)…

The transit from a Bildungsroman novel to a Künstlerroman one

It is difficult to define with a simple term the James Joyce´s novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. While some scholars as Parrinder (72) express their nature as a formation, personal development or coming-of-age…

The national Irish identity and the Irish Nationalism in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The issue of the national Irish identity and the Irish nationalism as an ideological movement that claims to reaffirm this national identity (in many cases as…

Characters in A portrait of the artist as a young man

In the novel of James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man all revolves around the main character: Stephen Dedalus. Settings, events and characters of the novel only exists and take significance from Stephen’s view and they owe…

But, What is Stephen’s mission as an artist?

Stephen’s need to break with his family, church, language and country has a clearly objective: to gain the freedom that he needs for being creative as an artist; he feels the need “to discover the mode of life or of art whereby your spirit could…

A Joycean Timeline

James Joyce Timeline

2nd February 1882 Joyce is born in Rathgar, Dublin

Music in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce uses the incorporation of songs and musical allusions to his novels for combining two of his loves: music and literature.