Stephen Hero is an early version of Joyce's 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. Although Joyce later entirely rewrote his novel of a young Irishman's rebellion against church, country and family, this early version is beautifully composed, the mood being more discursive and personal than in A Portrait. Many episodes later cut for the sake of good novelistic form, especially autobiographical episodes of sensual and family life, are fully presented, with some of the most vivacious dialogue Joyce ever wrote. Between them, the two versions give us a clear example of Joyce's literary development as well as many details of his life. This edition of Stephen Hero for the first time printed the five missing pages of the novel found among the papers in the Joyce Collection of the Cornell University Library. These pages fill gaps in the text as edited in 1956 by John J. Slocum and Herbert Cahoon and also extend the narrative. The main text of Stephen Hero is a connected, nearly self-contained passage of 383 manuscript pages which turned up soon after Joyce's death. It was first edited by Theodore Spencer and published by New Directions in 1944. In this edition, introductions by the successive editors discuss the literary and bibliographical aspects of this important early work by one of the great modern masters.
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Stephen Hero’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of James Joyce’.
In Joyce's notes for Stephen Hero, printed by Gorman (p. 135), appear the words: “Ireland — an afterthought of Europe.” * “West Britonism.” From Seon, John, especially John Bull. † The English language. * This is Michael Cusack, ...
Stephen Hero is an early version of Joyce's A Portrait of the artist as a Young Man.
This early work by James Joyce was originally published in 1944 and we are now republishing it for the modern reader. James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1882.
Stephen el Heroe, primera redaccion del Retrato del artista adolescente, fue echado al fuego por el propio James Joyce, despues de una violenta escena familiar.
Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
Heroesis the story of what we mortals are truly capable of - at our worst and our very best.
" In Heroes, Fry draws out the humor and pathos in both tender love affairs and heroic battles, and reveals each myth's relevance for our own time. • A collector's edition filled with classical art inspired by the myths and a luxe, foil ...
This new perspective on Joyce's mode of composition opens the way to a range of potential interpretations of the individual texts, as well as methodological and theoretical insights regarding genetic criticism.
Condensation is clearly a major principle of revision in the transformation of Stephen Hero into Portrait.20 Before Joyce abandoned the unfinished Stephen Hero in 1906, the manuscript was already about a thousand pages.