A 10 page paper looking at the life of James Joyce and showing how it is reflected in his novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Particular emphasis is placed on the issues in Irish politics during Joyce's youth and the influence of Catholicism on his writing. Bibliography lists 8 sources. A five page paper looking at the importance of these three themes in James Joyce s classic short story. The paper maintains that Joyce views Ireland as a nation essentially dead, whose greatest power lays in its memories and imagination.
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The paper concludes that the reason young Stephen has so much difficulty fitting into society is that he cannot sublimate his artistic individuality into socially-acceptable channels. No additional sources. Bibliography lists 8 sources. This 8 page paper discusses how both the poet, W. B. Yeats, and the novelist, James Joyce, explored ideas of Irish identity through different aspects of colonialism. Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' and several of Yeats' poems are used as illustrative examples.