James Joyce brFull name James Augustine Aloysius Joyce.br1882 1941 brA famous Irish novelist.brbrJames Joyce is noted for his experimental use of language and exploration of new literary methods in such large works of fiction as Ulysses 1922 and Finnegans Wake 1939. brbrA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 1916 is Joyces first novel. Written in the modernist style it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe.