a portrait of the artist as a young man novel

Did Not Do the Bloody Research: The English priest who is ever-so-patronising about Stephen's use of the word 'tundish', not knowing that it's a regular English word.

Determinator: Stephen, whose basic independence of mind saves him from being targeted at school by a sadistic teacher and, later, from joining the priesthood.

Break the Cutie: Stephen gets a taste of this during the Father Dolan episode.

Blind Without 'Em: Stephen can't do his schoolwork after his glasses get broken, which Father Dolan refuses to believe was an accident.

Author Avatar: Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce if he hadn't become famous.

Stephen Hero only exists in incomplete form, but it was published in 1944, following the author's death.

Joyce was not satisfied with the earlier work, and re-wrote it from page one after Dubliners was published. The story started life as a novel to be called Stephen Hero, which Joyce was working on from 1904 to 1906. The novel was published in serialized form from 1914 to 1915, then collected in book form in 1916.

The crux of the plot is Dedalus's struggle with his autonomy against the wishes of the Roman Catholic Church. The story takes us from his early life as a boy through his relationship with the church and with the institutions of Irish society in general, to his becoming a young adult. A mostly autobiographical novel by James Joyce, centred on a young Irishman, Stephen Dedalus, and his struggle to express himself.

A portrait of the artist as a young man novel