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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.
Jan 6, 2021 · Stephen Hero is like none of the other prose fiction that Joyce produced over his lifetime, although it does anticipate themes found in Joyce’s later works: Stephen’s emerging artistic consciousness, for example, and the conflicts he faces within the confines of his social and religious environment.
…writing a lengthy naturalistic novel, Stephen Hero, based on the events of his own life, when in 1904 George William Russell offered £1 each for some simple short stories with an Irish background to appear in a farmers’ magazine, The Irish Homestead.
Stephen Hero is a posthumously-published autobiographical novel by Irish author James Joyce. Its published form reflects only a portion of an original manuscript, part of which was lost.
Stephen Hero is an early version of Joyce’s famous A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It was originally rejected on grounds of indecency—so the story goes—by twenty publishers, whereupon Joyce threw the manuscript in the fire, but Mrs. Joyce rescued several unburnt portions.
In Stephen Hero, as is not the case in the Portrait, we have a revealing account of Stephen's devotion to two artists. Of the first, Joyce begins: "It must be said simply and at once that at this time Stephen suffered the most enduring influence of his life."14 And Ibsen plays a central role in Stephen's experience, for it is in defense of him ...
Stephen Hero. James Joyce. New Directions Publishing, 1963 - Fiction - 253 pages. It was originally rejected on grounds of indecency--so the story goes-- by twenty publishers, whereupon Joyce...
