Authors: Mark A. Wollaeger (Editor), James Joyce
ISBN-13: 9780195150766, ISBN-10: 0195150767
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: March 2003
Edition: New Edition
Mark A. Wollaeger is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
This casebook offers a comprehensive introduction to this landmark in modern fiction. The essays collected here will help first-time readers, teachers, and advanced scholars gain new insight into Joyce's semi-autobiographical story of an Irish boy's slow and difficult discovery of his artistic vocation. Mark Wollaeger's introduction provides an overview of the composition and early reception of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as well as a survey of some of the recurrent issues debated by literary critics. Essays by Hugh Kenner and Patrick Parrinder offer both indispensable overviews of the entire novel-its themes, structure, and idiom-and close attention to specific interpretive cruxes. Other essays include classic responses by Wayne Booth, Fritz Senn, Michael Levenson, Hélène Cixous, and a newly revised and expanded version of Maud Ellmann's groundbreaking "Polytropic Man." Together the essays bring into focus the wide range of questions that have kept A Portrait fresh for the new millennium.
Introduction | 3 | |
The Portrait in Perspective | 27 | |
The Problem of Distance in A Portrait of the Artist | 59 | |
The Style of the Troubled Conscience | 73 | |
A Portrait of the Artist | 85 | |
The Challenge: "ignotas animum" (An Old-fashioned Close Guessing at a Borrowed Structure) | 129 | |
The Name and the Scar: Identity in The Odyssey and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 143 | |
Stephen's Diary in Joyce's Portrait - The Shape of Life | 183 | |
Framing, Being Framed, and the Janus Faces of Authority | 207 | |
Thrilled by His Touch: The Aestheticizing of Homosexual Panic in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | 245 | |
Portrait of an Aesthete | 281 | |
The Woman of the Ballyhoura Hills: James Joyce and the Politics of Creativity | 297 | |
"Goodbye Ireland I'm Going to Gort": Geography, Scale, and Narrating the Nation | 319 | |
Between Stephen and Jim: Portraits of Joyce as a Young Man | 343 | |
Suggested Reading | 357 |