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

Matt Simpon places Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in the context of the Modernist movement of the early 20th century, seeing it as a novel that takes a revolutionary view of what constitutes 'character', and exploring the many and various ways it may be constructed through a patterning of significant, formative experiences. In this study, Simpson investigates the multiple meanings of the book's central character 'Stephen Dedalus' to reveal afresh the artistic daring of Joyce's groundbreaking novel.

About the author:

Matt Simpson is the author of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night in the Student Guide Literary Series.

56  pages

ISBN: 978-1-906075-07-1