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By Nathan Moore - February 22, 2003
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is, if nothing else, a record of the psychological journeys of Stephen Dedalus as he progresses from child to adult, unlearned rural boy to intellectual student, sinner to saint to artist. Stephen's level of devotion and intensity, regardless of the object of these feelings, seems to increase following each…
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