Like the real author, the artist character in Stephen Hero and in A Portrait ( written I9o7-i4)has been strongly influenced by the writings of older contemporaries, especially Walter Pater, whose famous “Conclusion” to The Renaissance (1873) emphasizes the special status of art as providing the most direct access to experiences of the highest intensity.
John Paul Riquelme
Stephen Hero, Dubliners, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Styles of Realism and Fantasy (查看原文)
A Portrait, also make it hard to distinguish the narrators perspective from the character's thoughts even though the narration occurs in the third person. Since Joyce is wring fiction and not pure autobiography, It is important not to identify the real author in any absolute way with the young artist character
In A Portrait, Stephen alternates between allegiances to the visionary and to the material, between internal fantasy and external reality. (查看原文)
”the interconnectedness of all Joyce's productions: not just the way the early texts prefigure the later texts, but the way the later texts rewrite the early texts“
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”the interconnectedness of all Joyce's productions: not just the way the early texts prefigure the later texts, but the way the later texts rewrite the early texts“