Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

American  

noun

1. a novel (1916) by James Joyce.

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Example Sentences

Maggie O'Farrell recalled seeing Mescal in the role of Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in Dublin before his break-out role in the hit show Normal People.

From BBC

Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s alter ego from “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” is thrust into the role of Telemachus, Odysseus’ son, recast as a lofty aesthete grieving the death of his mother while keeping his distance from his overbearing, dissolute father.

From Los Angeles Times

The strategy developed out of Gaines’s own “Submerged Text” series from the early 1990s, a conceptual artwork in which Gaines took a section of writing from Kafka’s “The Castle” or James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” highlighting words and phrases that he saw as “signifiers of race” and replacing everything else with numbers.

From New York Times

But although I registered the novel’s considerable stylistic debts both to Hemingway and Faulkner — not to mention “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” — I was so intoxicated by its music that the point seemed academic.

From Los Angeles Times

Slote, the professor, quoted a line from “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” in which Joyce says a writer is “a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life.”

From New York Times