Author | James Joyce |
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Cover artist | N. I. Cannon |
Language | English |
Genre | Autobiographical, Modernism |
Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 1944 |
Media type | Print ( Hardback & Paperback) |
Stephen Hero is a posthumously published autobiographical novel by Irish author James Joyce. [1] It is the early version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Its published form reflects only a portion of the manuscript: the first 518 pages have disappeared; 383 pages remain. [2]
Joyce introduced the concept of “epiphany” in Stephen Hero to preface a discussion of Thomas Aquinas’s three criteria of beauty, wholeness, harmony, and radiance: when the object “seems to us radiant, [it] achieves its epiphany.” [3] The term isn’t used when Stephen Dedalus covers the same ground in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In Stephen Hero the protagonist thinks of recording epiphanies in a book [3].There’s a reference to Stephen Dedalus’s collection of epiphanies in Ulysses. [4] Joyce himself recorded over seventy epiphanies, of which forty have survived. [5]
Work on Stephen Hero probably began in Dublin in 1903. [6] According to Derek Attridge, it was to be "a thinly disguised autobiography, stylistically undistinguished and immensely long." [6]
Joyce abandoned the work in Trieste in 1905. [6] Sylvia Beach, to whom Joyce gave the surviving pages, wrote that, "When the manuscript came back to its author, after the twentieth publisher had rejected it, he threw it in the fire, from which Mrs. Joyce, at the risk of burning her hands, record these pages." Biographer Herbert Gorman supported this claim which has been widely reported. [7] It has been noted that no surviving parts of the manuscript have any signs of burning. [8]
Author | James Joyce |
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Cover artist | N. I. Cannon |
Language | English |
Genre | Autobiographical, Modernism |
Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 1944 |
Media type | Print ( Hardback & Paperback) |
Stephen Hero is a posthumously published autobiographical novel by Irish author James Joyce. [1] It is the early version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Its published form reflects only a portion of the manuscript: the first 518 pages have disappeared; 383 pages remain. [2]
Joyce introduced the concept of “epiphany” in Stephen Hero to preface a discussion of Thomas Aquinas’s three criteria of beauty, wholeness, harmony, and radiance: when the object “seems to us radiant, [it] achieves its epiphany.” [3] The term isn’t used when Stephen Dedalus covers the same ground in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In Stephen Hero the protagonist thinks of recording epiphanies in a book [3].There’s a reference to Stephen Dedalus’s collection of epiphanies in Ulysses. [4] Joyce himself recorded over seventy epiphanies, of which forty have survived. [5]
Work on Stephen Hero probably began in Dublin in 1903. [6] According to Derek Attridge, it was to be "a thinly disguised autobiography, stylistically undistinguished and immensely long." [6]
Joyce abandoned the work in Trieste in 1905. [6] Sylvia Beach, to whom Joyce gave the surviving pages, wrote that, "When the manuscript came back to its author, after the twentieth publisher had rejected it, he threw it in the fire, from which Mrs. Joyce, at the risk of burning her hands, record these pages." Biographer Herbert Gorman supported this claim which has been widely reported. [7] It has been noted that no surviving parts of the manuscript have any signs of burning. [8]