A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1964) by Irish writer James Joyce is a classic coming of age story about a young man and is considered one of the benchmarks of modernism as well as one of the inspirations for Barth's Ambrose.
"The School," (1976) by Donald Barthelme, is a postmodern story in which dim-witted teachers are completely unable to understand.....
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