{"title":"3. A Portrait","authors":"C. MacCabe","doi":"10.1093/actrade/9780192894472.003.0003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"‘A Portrait’ examines James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). In January of 1904, Joyce wrote an autobiographical essay entitled ‘A Portrait of the Artist’. The essay sketches a life, complete with religious disillusion, romantic love, and visits to brothels, which is recognizably the life of Stephen Dedalus. After the essay was rejected for publication, Joyce sat down and began a long autobiographical novel with the provisional title Stephen Hero. This draft would become A Portrait, which is constructed on a dialectic of masculine identity and female disidentification.","PeriodicalId":299184,"journal":{"name":"James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780192894472.003.0003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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‘A Portrait’ examines James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). In January of 1904, Joyce wrote an autobiographical essay entitled ‘A Portrait of the Artist’. The essay sketches a life, complete with religious disillusion, romantic love, and visits to brothels, which is recognizably the life of Stephen Dedalus. After the essay was rejected for publication, Joyce sat down and began a long autobiographical novel with the provisional title Stephen Hero. This draft would become A Portrait, which is constructed on a dialectic of masculine identity and female disidentification.