In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the character of Dante Riordan can be likened to the figure of the devouring, consuming female which is seen in her outburst at the dinner table. Keane says of Dante: ‘Destructive from the outset, Dante…
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by James Joyce
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James Joyce
English
Künstlerroman, modernism
Dublin and Clongowes Wood College, c. 1890s
29 December 1916
Stephen Dedalus, Simon Dedalus, Emma Clery, Charles Stewart Parnell, Cranly, Dante (Mrs. Riordan), Lynch
The novel tells the story of Stephen Dedalus, a boy growing up in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century. Stephen steadily decides to cast off all his social, familial, and religious relationships to devote his life to the art of writing.