Born into a middle-class family in Dublin, Ireland, James Joyce (1882–1941) excelled as a student, graduating from University College, Dublin, in 1902. He moved to Paris to study medicine, but soon gave it up. He … See more

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes. ("And he turned his mind to unknown arts.")— Ovid, Epigraph to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man See more

Source:
• Stephen Dedalus – The main character of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Growing up, Stephen goes through long phases of … See more

The novel is a Bildungsroman and captures the essence of character growth and understanding of the world around him. The novel mixes See more

In 1913, W. B. Yeats sent the poem I Hear an Army by James Joyce to Ezra Pound, who was assembling an anthology of Imagist verse entitled Des Imagistes. Pound wrote to … See more

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along … See more

Identity
As a narrative which depicts a character throughout his formative years, M. Angeles Conde-Parrilla posits that identity is possibly the most prevalent theme in the novel. Towards the beginning of the novel, Joyce depicts the … See more