Title: Critical essays on James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man /
Authors: Brady, Philip, 1955-; Carens, James F. 1927-
Publisher: G.K. Hall ; Prentice Hall International,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Joyce, James,; Young men in literature.; Dublin (Ireland) In literature.
Abstract: Divided into categories of critical cruxes; structure, image, symbol, and myth; and the impact of theory, this book is a collection of essays on James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and on James Joyce's place in modern letters.
Contents: Introduction / Philip Brady and James F. Carens -- Introduction to Stephen Hero / Theodore Spencer -- Joyce and the Epiphany: The Key to the Labyrinth? / Robert Scholes -- Stephen's Diary: The Shape of Life / Michael Levenson -- The Villanelle Perplex: Reading Joyce / Robert Adams Day -- The Aesthetics of Stephen's Aesthetic / Cordell D.K. Yee -- The Genesis of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / Hans Walter Gabler -- Joyce's Portrait and Flaubert's L'Education Sentimentale / David Hayman -- A Slow and Dark Birth: A Study of the Organization / Sidney Feshbach -- The Portrait as Portrait: Joyce and Impressionism / Maurice Beebe -- Davin's "Strange Woman" and Her Biblical Prototypes / Nehama Aschkenasy -- Daedalus and the Bird Girl: Classical Text and Celtic Subtext / F.L. Radford -- The Art of the Labyrinth / Diane Fortuna -- Reading Acts, Reading Warrants, and Reading Responses / James J. Sosnoski -- The Artist as Text: Dialogism and Incremental Repetition in Portrait / R.B. Kershner -- Riddles, Silence, and Wonder: Joyce and Wittgenstein Encountering the Limits of Language / Thomas C. Singer -- The Strength and Sorrow of Young Stephen: The Dialectic of Harmony and Dissonance / Michael Bruce McDonald -- Framing, Being Framed, and the Janus Faces of Authority / Vicki Mahaffey.