Download or read book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man written by James Joyce and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joyce’s deeply personal and “most memorable novel” (H. G. Wells) detailing the spiritual and artistic awakening of Stephen Dedalus, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Classics line. James Joyce’s semi-autobiographical first novel explores the author’s own love-hate relationship with Ireland through Stephen Dedalus, Joyce’s literary alter ego. Dedalus yearns to be an artist, but must first overcome the aspects of Irish society, like school and the church, that he feels restrains his creativity and stifles his soul. Joyce’s use of experimental literary techniques, including stream of consciousness, is on full display in his first novel, which he further develops in his later works, Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake.
Download or read book Agua Viva written by Clarice Lispector and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses life, time, beauty, experience, meaning, music, and art.
Download or read book Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Man written by Joseph Heller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine an author who has become a legend in his own lifetime - all because of the novel he wrote in the first flush of youth. Novelist Eugene Pota is a cultural icon of the twentieth century, struggling to write what will be the last novel of his career. But what to write about when, like so many noted authors before him, all of Pota's output since that first, landmark novel has been scrutinized and dissected - and found wanting? PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST, AS AN OLD MAN follows Pota's efforts to settle on a subject for his final work. In his search, Heller - through Pota - pays homage to his favourite authors and discusses the problems that have plagued so many writers whose later works failed to live up to the successes of their first: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, to name but a few. It is a rare and enthralling look into the artist's search for creativity, a search that comes at a point in life when impotence - both sexual and spiritual - has become a frustrating fact. Joseph Heller must have known that this would be his final novel; it stands as a fitting testament to the life and works of a leading light in modern literature.
Download or read book Joyce Annotated written by Don Gifford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition is revised and enlarged from Notes for Joyce: "Dubliners" and "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".
Download or read book James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man written by John Blades and published by Penguin Mass Market. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Joyce s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man written by Mark A. Wollaeger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This casebook offers a comprehensive introduction to this landmark in modern fiction. It includes an introductory overview of the work's composition and early reception; classic essays by Hugh Kenner, Patrick Parrinder, Wayne Booth, Fritz Senn, Michael Levenson, and Hélène Cixous; and a newly revised and expanded version of Maud Ellmann's "Polytropic Man."
Download or read book Critical Essays on James Joyce s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man written by Philip Brady and published by Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into categories of critical cruxes; structure, image, symbol, and myth; and the impact of theory, this book is a collection of essays on James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and on James Joyce's place in modern letters.
Download or read book Blood Water Paint written by Joy McCullough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Haunting ... teems with raw emotion, and McCullough deftly captures the experience of learning to behave in a male-driven society and then breaking outside of it."—The New Yorker "I will be haunted and empowered by Artemisia Gentileschi's story for the rest of my life."—Amanda Lovelace, bestselling author of the princess saves herself in this one A William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist 2018 National Book Award Longlist Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was one of Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew her name. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men took what they wanted from women, and in the aftermath of rape Artemisia faced another terrible choice: a life of silence or a life of truth, no matter the cost. He will not consume my every thought. I am a painter. I will paint. Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her. McCullough weaves Artemisia's heartbreaking story with the stories of the ancient heroines, Susanna and Judith, who become not only the subjects of two of Artemisia's most famous paintings but sources of strength as she battles to paint a woman's timeless truth in the face of unspeakable and all-too-familiar violence. I will show you what a woman can do. ★"A captivating and impressive."—Booklist, starred review ★"Belongs on every YA shelf."—SLJ, starred review ★"Haunting."—Publishers Weekly, starred review ★"Luminous."—Shelf Awareness, starred review
Download or read book A Companion to James Joyce written by Richard Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to James Joyce offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce's writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures. Brings together 25 newly-commissioned essays by some of the top scholars in the field Explores Joyce's distinctive cultural place in Irish, British and European modernism and the growing impact of his work elsewhere in the world A comprehensive and timely Companion to current debates and possible areas of future development in Joyce studies Offers new critical readings of several of Joyce's works, including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses
Download or read book Help My Unbelief written by Geert Lernout and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading Joyce scholar argues that Joyce's work can only be fully understood in the context of his unbelief
Download or read book Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man written by Norman Mailer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author sets out to capture Picasso's early life in this biography, exploring the originality of his art and ambition. At the heart of the interpretation is Picasso's first great love, Fernande Olivier, with whom the artist lived for seven years - a period which included his most revolutionary works. Fernande is given her own voice by way of excerpts from her candid memoirs. Including the artist's friendships with Apollonaire and Gertrude Stein, the book evokes the atmosphere of bohemian life in Paris in the early 1900s.
Download or read book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man written by James Joyce and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1977-06-30 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyce's semi-autobiographical chronicle of Stephen Dedalus' passage from university student to "independent" artist is at once a richly detailed, amusing, and moving coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and technique, and a profound examination of the Irish psyche and society.
Download or read book Critical Reviews of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce written by Marvin Magalaner and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portrait of a Young Man Drowning written by Charles Perry and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1962 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the world of Brooklyn gangsters and juvenile delinquents, Harold Odum is driven by the circumstances of his life into acts of self-destruction and twisted sexuality. Reprint. Movie tie-in.
Download or read book Self Portrait written by Celia Paul and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, penetrating memoir about the author's relationship with a flawed but influential figure—the painter Lucian Freud—and the satisfactions and struggles of a life lived through art. One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. Self-Portrait tells the artist's story in her own words, drawn from early journal entries as well as memory, of her childhood in India and her days as a art student at London's Slade School of Fine Art; of her intense decades-long relationship with the older esteemed painter Lucian Freud and the birth of their son; of the challenges of motherhood, the unresolvable conflict between caring for a child and remaining commited to art; of the "invisible skeins between people," the profound familial connections Paul communicates through her paintings of her mother and sisters; and finally, of the mystical presence in her own solitary vision of the world around her. Self-Portrait is a powerful, liberating evocation of a life and of a life-long dedication to art.
Download or read book A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective written by Joseph A. Buttigieg and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hold Still written by Sally Mann and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.