<Tr> <Th> Genre </Th> <Td> Novel </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Published </Th> <Td> 29 December 1916 </Td> </Tr> <P> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel by Irish writer James Joyce . A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology . Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self - exile from Ireland to Europe . The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). </P> <P> A Portrait began life in 1904 as Stephen Hero--a projected 63 - chapter autobiographical novel in a realistic style . After 25 chapters, Joyce abandoned Stephen Hero in 1907 and set to reworking its themes and protagonist into a condensed five - chapter novel, dispensing with strict realism and making extensive use of free indirect speech that allows the reader to peer into Stephen's developing consciousness . American modernist poet Ezra Pound had the novel serialised in the English literary magazine The Egoist in 1914 and 1915, and published as a book in 1916 by B.W. Huebsch of New York . The publication of A Portrait and the short story collection Dubliners (1914) earned Joyce a place at the forefront of literary modernism . </P>

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