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By Theoderek Wayne - December 02, 2001
The Christmas dinner scene¹s divisive political and moral debate in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man underlines an essential obstacle to the artistic mind of Stephen Dedalus. Ireland imposes a set of oppressive binaries‹namely in the form of religion and nationalism‹from which he can escape only through the ambiguity of language and his…
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