LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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It begins with the famous line: “Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo____”?
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It is a semi-autobiographical account of Joyce’s “coming of age” as an artist.
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It captures the conflict that Stephen Dedalus has with his Irish and Catholic heritage.
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel by the Irish modernist writer James Joyce. It follows the intellectual, moral and spiritual development of a young Catholic Irishman, Stephen Dedalus, and his struggle against the restrictions his culture imposes.
Detailed explanation-2: -A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man explores what it means to become an artist. Stephen’s decision at the end of the novel-to leave his family and friends behind and go into exile in order to become an artist-suggests that Joyce sees the artist as a necessarily isolated figure.
Detailed explanation-3: -Structure. A Portrait of the Artist is divided into five chapters. Each chapter deals with a different period in the first twenty years of the central character, Stephen Dedalus. Each also addresses a specific theme related to Stephen’s development as an artist.