Considered to be cast in a daring rhetorical mode, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel by James Joyce. Originally published as a series, the novel continually interacts with Irish history and culture.
The title, James Joyce’s A Portrait of Artist As Young Man, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on James Joyce’s A Portrait of Artist As Young Man through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on James Joyce, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
