Does the narrative of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man make it a modern novel?

I think
that the message that comes out of Joyce's work and the manner in which it is delivered both
reflect the modern concept of the novel.  The most dominant element in which this is present is
how Joyce sees the world through Stephen Dedalus.  When Woolf writes about the shifting of
"human relations" into a new vision of the world, this becomes the driving force in
Joyce's work.  Gone are the "old" structures such as...