The Ordeal of Stephen Dedalus: The Conflict of the Generations in James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

In his pursuit of the unknown in Joyce's works, Edmund Epstein has made new discoveries of Joyce through an astonishing range of refer­ences and documentation, from Hebrew to Classical and modern European thought. This book will be of immediate and invaluable significance not only to Joyce scholars but to students and readers of modern literature in general. The pattern Epstein sees in Joyce's works is the conflict of genera­tions, the recurring pattern of human nature which Joyce sought to discover and describe. Mr. Epstein follows Joyce's working of the process throughA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manto its climax inUlysses,and constantly refers toFinnegans Wakefor corroboration and perspective. Valuable in itself for its new reading of Joyce, Epstein's work offers new interpretations of themes and symbols which have heretofore puzzled Joyce scholars.Epstein, Edmund L. is the author of 'The Ordeal of Stephen Dedalus: The Conflict of the Generations in James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', published 1973 under ISBN 9780809306497 and ISBN 0809306492.