Linguistic and Pictorial Portrait: A Montage of Performances In A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Document Type : Academic scientific reviews of any other material related to the main domains of this Journal.

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Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic university

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the narrator's attempt to sketch the portrait in memory is extremely complex and difficult to follow. Every time, the narrator's earnest efforts to paint a straight-line, unwavering portrayal end in terrible tragedies. The signifier "portrait," however, gains significant strength and develops into a brand-new language and pictorial signified. With such enormous complexity, confusion, and tension, one could claim that this story is a linguistic and visual depiction. Additionally, the essay will bolster its claims using the ideas and theories of eminent critics like George Lucas, Paul De Man, and Jacques Derrida.

The plot of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man being very intricate and challenging to follow is the narrator’s attempt to draw the portrait in recollection. The narrator’s intense endeavors to draw an undeviating and linear portrait always culminate in appalling catastrophes. But the signifier ‘portrait’ acquires great power to become a new linguistic and pictorial signified. Thus, one can say that this novel is a linguistic and pictorial portrait with incredible intricacy, uncertainty, and strain.. His recurrent use of the ‘past’, ‘the past perfect’' and the ‘passive’ have drawn him into a murky narrative which cannot enforce linearity since the very device, i.e., language, is already constantly non-linear.

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