T H E VIKING CRITICAL UBRARY

Malcolm Cowley, General Editor

Winesburg, Ohio by SherwcKxl Anderson Edited by John H . Ferres

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Edited by Gerald Weales

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Edited by Chester G. Anderson

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence Edited by Julian Moynahan

Dubliners by James Joyce Edited by Robert Scholes and A. Walton Litz

On the Road byJackKerouac Edited and introduced by Scott Donaldson

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

Edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Peter J . Conn

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Edited by Gerald Weales

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Edited by Peter Lisca

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Edited by John C. Pratt

Herzog by Saul Bellow

Edited by Irving Howe

T H E V I K I N G C R I T I C A L L I B R A R Y

JAMES JOYCE

T E X T , CRITICISM, AND NOTES

E D I T E D BY C H E S T E R G . A N D E R S O N U N I V E R S I T Y O F M I N N E S O T A

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C O N T E N T S

Editor's Preface i I A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: The

Text 5 A N O T E O N T H E T E X T 254

I I Related Texts by Joyce 255 E D I T O R I A L N O T E 256

A Portrait of the Artist 257 Epiphanies 267 From Stephen Hero 273

Emma Cleary 274 I W i l l Not Submit 277 The Convent Girls 283 You Are Mad, Stephen 284 Epiphanies 286

The Trieste Notebook 290 From Ulysses 299

Let Me Be and Let Me Live 300 The Only True Thing in Life? 303 Nothung! 305

From Finnegans Wake 310 Shem the Penman 310 The Haunted Inkbottle 312

I I I A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Criticism 3̂ 5

Early Comment 317 Ezra Pound, Letter to Joyce 317 Edward Gamett, Reader's Report 319

V

Contentt Ezra Pound, James Joyce: At Last the N

Appears Diego Angeh, Extracts from 11 Marzocco H. G. Wells, James Joyce The Egoist, Extracts from Press Notices The Egoist, James Joyce and His Critics: Some

Classified Comments

The Tradition and The New Novel Maurice Beebe, The Artist as Hero Irene Hendry Chayes, Joyce's Epiphanies Frank O'Connor, Joyce and Dissociated Metaphor William York Tindall, The Literary Symbol

General Readings Richard Ellmann, The Growth of Imagination Harry Levin, The Artist Hugh Kenner, The Portrait in Perspective Kenneth Burke, Definitions

Controversy: The Question of Esthetic Distance Editor's Introduction Wayne Booth, The Problem of Distance in

A Portrait of the Artist Robert Scholes, Stephen Dedalus, Poet or

Esthete?

Explanatory Notes

Chronology Topics for Discussion and Papers Selected Bibliography

The pages of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are, as Stephen Dedalus says of those in his second-hand copy of Horace, "human pages." They tell the story of the growth of a human soul from early childhood to young man­hood—his revolt against his "nice mother" and the mother Church; his attempts to distance through comic formulation his improvident father; his real and phantasmal movements of love toward immaculate virgins and prostitutes; his encounter with sin, injustice and cruelty and hypocrisy and a million other faces of the "reality of experience," as he goes forth from the Eden of his childhood.

But i t is also the story of the growth of the artist trying to "see" his life as "that thing which i t is and no other thing"; trying to find the words, the individuating rhythms, the shapes of sentences, the mythy paradigms to give that flowing growth the "wholeness, harmony, and radiance" which writer and then reader rejoice to see and to understand.

The growth of both man and artist is told in a new way. Joyce called the new way a presentation of the past as a "fluid succession of presents," a succession in which nothing is lost. There is no past in the book: only a continuous present with a

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