Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Resumen del libro

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is one of the twentieth century great coming-of-age novels.

This Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Gabler acclaimed text and is accompanied by his introduction and textual notes. John Paul Riquelme provides detailed explanatory annotations. -Backgrounds and Contexts- is thematically organized to provide readers with a clear picture of the novel historical, cultural, and literary inspirations. Topics include -Political Nationalism: Irish History, 1798-1916,- -The Irish Literary and Cultural Revival,- -Religion,- and -Aesthetic Backgrounds.- -Criticism- begins with John Paul Riquelme helpful essay on the novel structural form and follows with twelve diverse interpretations by, among others, Kenneth Burke, Umberto Eco, Hugh Kenner, Maud Ellmann, Joseph Valente, and Marian Eide. A Selected Bibliography is also included.

John Paul Riquelme is Professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of Teller and Tale in Joyce Fiction: Oscillating Perspectives and Harmony of Dissonances: T.S. Eliot, Romanticism, and Imagination. He is editor of the two Bedford literary reprints-Tess of the d-Urbervilles and Dracula.

Biografía del autor

(Dublín, 1822 - Zúrich, 1941) es uno de los escritores más influyentes del siglo XX y su novela "Ulises" (1922) está considerada como una de las grandes obras maestras de la literatura universal. Destacado representante de lo que se ha dado en denominar el modernismo anglosajón , encabeza una generación de vanguardistas entre la que aparecen autores como Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf y T. S. Eliot. Jorge Luis Borges lo comparó con Shakespeare y Thomas Browne, y la "Enciclopedia Británica" asegura que su influencia es tan poderosa y atrae a tantos autores que muchos leen a Joyce sin necesidad de abrir las páginas de sus libros. Entre su obra sobresalen "Dublineses" (1914), "Retrato del artista adolescente" (1916) y "Finnegans Wake" (1939).