Joyce, James - John Paul Riquelme (essay date 1990)
John Paul Riquelme (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Riquelme, John Paul. “Stephen Hero, Dubliners, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Styles of Realism and Fantasy.” In The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce, edited by Derek Attridge, pp. 103-30. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
[In the following essay, Riquelme traces the development of Stephen Daedalus as an artist in Joyce's novels.]
TOWARDS A STYLISTIC HISTORY: FROM STEPHEN HERO TO ULYSSES
Near the end of what has survived of Joyce's unfinished draft of an autobiographical novel, Stephen Hero [SH] (written in 1904-5), the central character, Stephen Daedalus, claims that one function of writing is ‘to record … epiphanies with extreme care’, since ‘they … are the most delicate and evanescent of moments’ (SH 211). In the same passage he defines an epiphany as ‘a sudden spiritual manifestation,...
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