I am struggling reading this book. There is something in the protagonist which is weird? I want to know is he trying to be a hero or something less. I...

In this
early and ostensibly autobiographic fictional work,established several patterns that
characterize his later . The title itself indicates the self-consciously constructed persona
that he is creating in Stephen Daedalus. The s name, similarly, has a mythical , suggesting that
the author intentionally distances himself from prevailingpresent in much of modern-day
literature.

Hugh Kenner's original essay about Portrait
was published in 1948. He reads backward from the vantage point of Joyces later works, primarily

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