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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By James Joyce

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce is a novel published in 1916. Written in a modernist style, it follows young Stephen Dedalus through his religious and intellectual awakening as he questions and rebels against Catholic and Irish conventions. The work traces Stephen's…

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"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce is a novel published in 1916. Written in a modernist style, it follows young Stephen Dedalus through his religious and intellectual awakening as he questions and rebels against Catholic and Irish conventions. The work traces Stephen's developing consciousness as he struggles with faith, identity, and artistic ambition, ultimately leading to his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. Joyce employs innovative techniques like free indirect speech to peer into his protagonist's evolving mind in this groundbreaking Künstlerroman. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Artists -- FictionAutobiographical fictionBildungsromansDublin (Ireland) -- FictionYoung men -- FictionCategory: British LiteratureCategory: Classics of LiteratureCategory: Novels
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