A portrait of the artist as a young man : voices of the text / [print]
Marguerite Harkness.
- Boston : Twayne Publishers, (c)1990.
- xiii, 133 pages ; 23 cm.
- Twayne's masterwork studies ; no. 38 .
- Twayne's masterwork studies ; no. 38. .
Note on the references and acknowledgments chronology: James Joyce's life and works -- Historical context -- Importance of the work -- Critical reception -- A reading -- Voices of the text and their stories -- "Once upon a time...": Fairy tales and readers' expectations -- Storytellers and patriarchy: From Simon Dedalus to Father Daedalus -- Finding a mode of life: Monomania and art -- Textures of indeterminancy: Reader as accomplice -- Stephen's "escape": Transcendence or failure? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.