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 religion or national identity that used to define one's sense of
self.  In its place are "new" forces such as the "non-serviam credo" and the concept of
the epiphany that force a fundamental shift in how consciousness is viewed.  The stream
of consciousness manner in which the first person is both everywhere and nowhere,
simultaneously, and where structure and identity are both emerging from figments and
fragments of perception are also representative of the modern novel.  The idea of the
individual being able to struggle with the lack of totality in the world and seeking to
fully understand this in a more coherent and clear manner is also a part of both the
modern struggle for articulation and what the novel presents to the reader.  In this, I
think that one can clearly argue that that the narrative presented in Joyce's work makes
it a modern novel.