A Psychoanaletic View Towards a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man : A Lacanian Study (original) (raw)
With the beginning of the modernist period, the novel stepped into a new phase. As the direct result of its stress on subjectivity rather than objectivity which itself is in turn the result of the theories of critics such as Freud and Marx, the twentieth century novels became progressively unique, dealing with the details of personal experience through the use of stream of consciousness. James Joyce was one of the novelists of this period who audaciously employed stream of consciousness in his novels like Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the title of which was originally “Stephen Hero”; however, Joyce following his final revision decided to modify it to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. As the original title suggests, Joyce focuses on a single character, who is his quick-witted and sensitive protagonist called Stephen Dedalus, throughout this autobiographical novel, which is a typical of modern novel; consequently, when one initiates readi...
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