A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

This Norton Critical Edition includes:- Hans Walter Gabler's acclaimed text of Joyce's 1916 coming-of-age novel, accompanied by Gabler's introduction and textual notes.- Preface and revised and expanded explanatory annotations by John Paul Riquelme.- Other writings by James Joyce closely related to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, new to the Second Edition.- Nine illustrations- "Backgrounds and Contexts" including a wealth of materials, topically organised: "Political Nationalism: Irish History, 1798-1916", "The Irish Literary and Cultural Revival", "Religion" and "Aesthetic Backgrounds".- Twelve major critical assessments, seven of them new to the Second Edition.- A chronology and a selected bibliography.
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