James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook

This casebook offers a comprehensive introduction to this landmark in modern fiction. The essays collected here will help first-time readers, teachers, and advanced scholars gain new insight into Joyce's semi-autobiographical story of an Irish boy's slow and difficult discovery of his artistic vocation. Mark Wollaeger's introduction provides an overview of the composition and early reception of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as well as a survey of some of the recurrent issues debated by literary critics. Essays by Hugh Kenner and Patrick Parrinder offer both indispensable overviews of the entire novel-its themes, structure, and idiom-and close attention to specific interpretive cruxes. Other essays include classic responses by Wayne Booth, Fritz Senn, Michael Levenson, Hélène Cixous, and a newly revised and expanded version of Maud Ellmann's groundbreaking "Polytropic Man." Together the essays bring into focus the wide range of questions that have kept A Portrait fresh for the new millennium.

Author: Mark A. Wollaeger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 03/27/2003
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.62w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780195150766

About the Author
Mark A. Wollaeger is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

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