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标题：Stephan’s Brave New World: A Deconstructive Reading on James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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作者：Ruzbeh Babaee ; Iraj Montashery
期刊名称：Studies in Literature and Language
印刷版ISSN：1923-1555
电子版ISSN：1923-1563
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：3
页码：127-132
DOI：10.3968/j.sll.1923156320110303.200
语种：English
出版社：Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture
摘要：A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914) is considered to be one of the major examples of the genre bildungsroman (the novel of the artist). This study concerns the search of the protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, for identity and meaning, which encompass a time period from his infancy to his late adolescence. In quest of identity and meaning, Stephen breaks from two totalities- nationalism and Catholic Church- that rule over his life. The present study reads the novel within a deconstructive perspective. Stephen like Nietzsche wants to talk about “the death of god” to pave the way for his exploration of meaning and identity. He tends to rebel and go beyond what Lyotard calls “the grand narrative”.Key words: Deconstruction; Metanarrative; Nationalism; Catholic Church; Simulation
关键词：Deconstruction; Metanarrative; Nationalism; Catholic Church; Simulation