James Joyce's a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Casebook - Paperbackby Mark A. Wollaeger (Editor) This casebook offers a comprehensive introduction to this landmark in modern fiction. The essays collected here will help first time readers, teachers, and advanced scholars gain new insight into Joyce's semi autobiographical story of an Irish boy's slow and difficult discovery of his artistic vocation. Mark Wollaeger's introduction provides an overview of the composition and early reception of A Portrait of the Artist as