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    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, which follows the protagonist Stephen Dedalus from childhood to early adulthood and his momentous decision to leave his native Ireland. Stephen grows up in a country divided by religious and political tensions, and must grapple with a number of competing influences as he strives to chart his own path and develop his own identity. His experiences are explored using the stream of consciousness techniques that Joyce is known for, resulting in a captivating and highly original narrative.  James Joyce was an Irish writer, and is widely recognised as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is known in particular for his novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and his short story collection Dubliners.

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    • A complete plot summary
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    • Questions for further reflection

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateMar 28, 2019
    ISBN9782808013024
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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      A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      IRISH NOVELIST, POET AND SHORT STORY WRITER

      Born in Dublin in 1882.

      Died in Zurich in 1941.

      Notable works:

      Dubliners (1914), short story collection

      Ulysses (1922), novel

      Finnegans Wake (1939), novel

      James Joyce was born into a financially unstable middle-class Irish Catholic family. He was the eldest of ten siblings, two of whom died. He studied at two Jesuit schools, then went to university in Dublin, before studying medicine in Paris. After giving up his degree, Joyce went home to be with his dying mother, but refused to kneel and pray at her deathbed. He met his future wife Nora Barnacle in 1904, although they did not marry until 1931. Joyce and Nora moved to Zurich, then Trieste, and had two children, George and Lucia. Despite crippling eye problems, he built a reputation for himself as an avant-garde writer, often experimenting with stream-of-consciousness styles. Although Joyce gave up his Catholic faith, he continued to be influenced by religious imagery and ideas. He fled the Nazi occupation of France and moved back to Zurich

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