A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Religion as Repression Like his protagonist, James Joyce was an Irish Catholic. He was also sent to Clongowes Wood College to board and study as a young boy. In effect the story is in part an autobiography of Joyce's own life up to the age of twenty or so (Kershner 6). In his essay A Portrait as Rebellion Norman Holland states: Because of Portrait's peculiar combination of …showed first 75 words of 1028 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1028 total…Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce. Ed. R.B.Kershner. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1993. 307-335. Holland, Norman N. "A Portrait as Rebellion." A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man: James Joyce. Ed. R.B. Kershner. Boston: Bedford Books ofSt. Martin's Press,1993. 279-294. Kershner, R.B. Introduction. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce. Ed. R.B. Kershner. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1993. 1-18.