《青年艺术家的画像》是詹姆斯.乔伊斯第一部公开发表的小说,也是西方文学史上第一部用意识流手法创作的成长小说。文章着重从语言和成长视角来探索乔伊斯的《青年艺术家的画像》中主人公史蒂芬逐渐成长为艺术家的过程,集中讨论史蒂芬语言的发展过程以及语言是如何不断修正他对世界的感知方式的。
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce's first published novel as well as the first stream of consciousness. In the novel, it is not only Stephen's ideas and interests which change, but also his fundamental means of experiencing and structuring the world about him. I shall attempt to explore his gradual process of being an artist with respect to two parameters: language and growth, rather, I want to concentrate upon Joyce's consciousness as it develops and modifies its basic modes of perception.