Chester G. Anderson, editor, James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Text, Criticism, and Notes, Viking Press, 1968.
Considered the definitive critical edition of Joyce's novel, the work includes excerpts from a number of early reviews.
Bernard Benstock, "James Joyce," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 36: British Novelists, 1890-1929: Modernists, edited by Thomas F. Staley, Gale, 1985, pp. 80-104.
An essay by a leading Joyce scholar. Benstock surveys Joyce's literary accomplishment and discusses the narrative technique and symbolism of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch, "View Points," in Twentieth Century Interpretations of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by William M. Schutte, Prentice Hall, 1968, pp. 114-15.
A discussion of "Bous Stephanomenos" and "Bous Stephanoforos."
Wayne Booth, "The Problem of Distance in.....
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