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James Joyces novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, is a classic grammatical case of a kntslerroman, a type of a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story, which focuses on the maturation of an artist. The theme of Stephen Daedalus intellectual development as an artist recurs through away this history by way of the recollection of his memories and the sensory descriptions he is able to provide. The cultivation of Stephens art is evidenced by his growing fascination with words and stories, though Stephens artistic prowess and interests do not seem to be confined to just one denomination, evidenced by the way that he creates songs out of conversations, Pull out his eyes, / Apologise(2), he seems to appreciate words more than anything else. Evidence of this pattern emerges in the first passage of the novel, when Stephen recalls Simon Daedalus, his father, relating to him the story of a moocow that was use up along the road and a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo(1). Though the first chapter is characterized by an incompressible pattern of flow, like that of a childs mind, St...