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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Second Edition| ©2006 James Joyce; Edited by R. B. Kershner
This critical edition of Joyce’s classic novel presents the 1964 text, corrected by Chester G. Anderson, along with critical essays that read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from contemporary psychoanalytic, feminist, cultural studies, and postcolonial perspectives. An additional essa...
This critical edition of Joyce’s classic novel presents the 1964 text, corrected by Chester G. Anderson, along with critical essays that read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from contemporary psychoanalytic, feminist, cultural studies, and postcolonial perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. As in the first edition, the text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. For the second edition, three of the five essays have been revised, and two new ones have been added. Also new is a selection of cultural documents and illustrations.
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This critical edition of Joyce’s classic novel presents the 1964 text, corrected by Chester G. Anderson, along with critical essays that read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from contemporary psychoanalytic, feminist, cultural studies, and postcolonial perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. As in the first edition, the text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. For the second edition, three of the five essays have been revised, and two new ones have been added. Also new is a selection of cultural documents and illustrations.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Second Edition| ©2006
James Joyce; Edited by R. B. Kershner
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Second Edition| 2006
James Joyce; Edited by R. B. Kershner
Table of Contents
PART I. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN: THE COMPLETE TEXT
Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text
*Cultural Documents and Illustrations
PART II. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Sheldon Brivic
Feminist Criticism
Suzette Henke
Cultural Criticism
R. Brandon Kershner
Postcolonial Studies
*Vincent J. Cheng
Combining Perspectives
*Cheryl Herr
* new to this edition
Biographical and Historical Contexts
The Complete Text
*Cultural Documents and Illustrations
PART II. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Sheldon Brivic
Feminist Criticism
Suzette Henke
Cultural Criticism
R. Brandon Kershner
Postcolonial Studies
*Vincent J. Cheng
Combining Perspectives
*Cheryl Herr
* new to this edition

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Second Edition| 2006
James Joyce; Edited by R. B. Kershner
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James Joyce

R. Brandon Kershner
R. Brandon Kershner is Alumni Professor of English at the University of Florida, where he teaches twentieth-century literature, cultural studies, and poetry writing. In addition to numerous articles, he has published Dylan Thomas: The Poet and His Critics (1997); The Culture of Joyce's Ulysses (2010); and Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature (1989); the latter won the 1990 American Conference for Irish Studies award as the best work of literary criticism in the field. He has also authored The Twentieth Century Novel: An Introduction, from Bedford/St. Martin’s (1997) and edited Joyce and Popular Culture (1990) and Cultural Studies of James Joyce (2003). He has also edited the Bedford/St. Martin’s edition of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Second Edition, 2006). He is a member of the Board of Advisory Editors of the James Joyce Quarterly and was recently reelected to the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation (1999-2004).

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Second Edition| 2006
James Joyce; Edited by R. B. Kershner
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