![]() ![]() More than this, Portrait is Joyce's deliberate attempt to create a new kind of novel that does not rely on conventional narrative techniques. But the book's significance does not lie only in its portrayal of a sensitive and complex young man or in its use of autobiographical detail. At the center of the story is Stephen's rejection of his Roman Catholic upbringing and his growing confidence as a writer. Stephen's education includes not only his formal schooling but also his moral, emotional, and intellectual development as he observes and reacts to the world around him. Set in Ireland in the late nineteenth century, Portrait is a semi-autobiographical novel about the education of a young Irishman, Stephen Dedalus, whose background has much in common with Joyce's. On one level, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can be read as what the Germans call a Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel. The title describes the book's subject quite accurately. ![]() ![]() Published in 1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man established its then thirty-two-year-old author, James Joyce, as a leading figure in the international movement known as literary modernism. ![]()
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