A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man - Allusions To The Novel

Allusions To The Novel

The title has been adapted and parodied by many writers including Dylan Thomas in his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Ogden Nash in his poem Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man, Joseph Heller in Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man, A.M. Klein in his poem Portrait of the Poet as Landscape, Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts' A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Young Man, Grayson Perry's biography Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, punk band Dillinger Four's song Portrait of the Artist as a Fucking Asshole, and William Eastlake's Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses. In Patrick White's novel The Solid Mandala, Waldo Brown plans but fails to write a novel called Tiresias a Youngish Man, thereby parodying both Joyce's novel and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Also the song Portrait Of The Artist As A Fountain by Simon Bookish. Steve Boyett's short story collection Treks Not Taken includes a Star Trek: The Next Generation parody entitled A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Fan. King of the Hill parodied the novel with an episode entitled Portrait of the Artist as a Young Clown.