{"product_id":"9780195150766","title":"James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: A Casebook","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis casebook offers a comprehensive introduction to this landmark in modern fiction. The essays collected here will help first-time readers, teachers, and advanced scholars gain new insight into Joyce's semi-autobiographical story of an Irish boy's slow and difficult discovery of his artistic vocation. Mark Wollaeger's introduction provides an overview of the composition and early reception of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as well as a survey of some of the recurrent issues debated by literary critics. Essays by Hugh Kenner and Patrick Parrinder offer both indispensable overviews of the entire novel-its themes, structure, and idiom-and close attention to specific interpretive cruxes. Other essays include classic responses by Wayne Booth, Fritz Senn, Michael Levenson, Hélène Cixous, and a newly revised and expanded version of Maud Ellmann's groundbreaking \"Polytropic Man.\" Together the essays bring into focus the wide range of questions that have kept A Portrait fresh for the new millennium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011940368624,"sku":"9780195150766","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780195150766_p0.jpg?v=1763663843","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780195150766","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}