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    The Image of the Father in Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son (1907), James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Kwame Anthony Appiah’s In My Father’s House (1992).
    (Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-Ouzou, 2017-06-11) DJELLOUT Mekioussa
    Family relations constitute an inexhaustible source of subjects to be explored in literature. Interactions between members of one family are complex and intricate to understand; a particular “universal” one, that of a father and a son. Authors such as Edmund Gosse, James Joyce and Anthony Kwame Appiah have, through their respective works, demonstrated to what extent that bond tying them to their respective fathers is complicated. Faced with a generational gap and differences in the cultural and social contexts of upbringing, it is nearly impossible to avoid confrontation. However, what the three books: Father and Son (1907), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and In My Father’s House (1992) provide us with, is the different ways each author deals, with their own somewhat tumultuous and unique relationship that binds them to their fathers. This dissertation aims at putting the three books in perspective so as to highlight the shift in the perception of fatherhood. In doing so, Edmund Gosse and Kwame Anthony Appiah are set as two extremes while James Joyce is set as a mediator. Through Nazan Yelkikalan’s and Sena Erden Ayhun’s “Generation theory” (2013), Freud’s the “Oedipus complex” and Kwame Appiah’s “Cosmopolitanism” (2006) we succeed to understand the father/son and son/father relationship as well as concluding that the theme of fatherhood changed from a monolithic perspective in the late Victorian period to a “multicultural” and “cosmopolitan” ones in the Post- Modern period.