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Candela Mazaira in Growing with Dedalus

The “girl-bird” epiphany as the starting point of the flight of Stephen´s creative freedom.

There are a lot of moments of epiphany in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; some of them are caused by a phrase that Stephen “draw forth from his treasure” or by words…

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Ireland Social and political environment

During the XIX and XX century Ireland lived a strong social and political crisis caused…

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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…

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Stephen Dedalus´s Colleges.

James Joyce was a student at Clongowes from 1888 to 1891 (ages 6–9), as was Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of…

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About This Blog

This Blog, about the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, arises as a part of my final project for the…

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Language as an instrument of ‘transgression’

Language is the third “net” from which Stephen must free himself for growing as person and artist, emerging thus with a highly relevance. It affects to the Stephen’s perception of the world and, simultaneously, the Stephen´s worldview, in particular as…

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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…

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Religion in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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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…

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Works Cited

Ellmann, Richard. “Joyce’s Religion and Politics” Irish Times supplement; 2 February 1982 (Joyce supplement 1).

Ellmann, Richard. The Consciousness of Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press. 1977.

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