James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes

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  • ジェイムズ・ジョイスの『若い芸術家の肖像』とフランク・マコートの『アンジェラの灰』
  • ジェイムズ ・ ジョイス ノ 『 ワカイ ゲイジュツカ ノ ショウゾウ 』 ト フランク ・ マコート ノ 『 アンジェラ ノ ハイ 』

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In the last paper, I investigated and compared Frank McCourt and James Joyce and concluded `James Joyce's stance,ambition and artifices flow into Frank McCourt's bold and shy little experimental thick memoirs though there are several differences between them, their directions of writing as well as their intentions' (Fukuoka 55).This paper pursues seven points that could be traced as major similarities between James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes (1996). The similarities: memories of their autobiographical developmental records by memory; their father's tradition as storytellers; their father's alcoholism and their family's disastrous decline; poverty and their description of their brothers; their suspicion against the Catholic Church; their criticism of teachers'and priests' violence; and sins and crimes and their sense of guilt.We also found that there are differences between the two Irish `exiles.' Joyce and Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait aimed for the success as `the artist' and the modernization of the art of a language, while McCourt headed for the realization of an American dream as a teacher and a writing master. Moreover, one of their big differences was traced as the point that McCourt attacked the poverty and misery of Irish childhood and children. He identified the cause of this problem and moved the hearts of Americans as well as his students.

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