Growing with Dedalus

During the XIX and XX century Ireland lived a strong social and political crisis caused among other elements by the intensification of its…

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…

Three are the elements that accompany Stephen as a child and teenager (“When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung…

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

Language is the third “net” from which Stephen must free himself for growing as person and artist, emerging thus with a highly relevance…

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…

Soon after that his instinct had refused his possible religion vocation, Stephen experiences a moment of epiphany, induced by the crossing…

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…