Abstract
This research paper, in a close textual analysis, examines the similarities and differences between Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Though Joyce makes autobiographical material the medium of expression in both versions, they appear to give the impression that they are different texts in more than one sense of the word. He suppresses some of the details he employed in the earlier version. In Stephen Hero, Joyce portrays the artist as a romantic hero. The final version bears a new title. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man seems to be a systematic account of the history of the protagonist’s growth, covering the first twenty two years of his life – from the time of his birth in 1882 to his self-motivated banishment to Paris in 1904. How does Stephen counterbalance the disenchantment of the heart caused by the ethos of the institutions of education with the enchantment of the heart embodied in the romantic/epiphanic mode of education? Joyce appears more objective toward the autobiographical material; he is more systematic and more logical in the presentation of the autobiographical material. The earlier version appears to be a skeletal outline of Stephen’s concerns; here it is fleshed out with the circumstantial details that underlie his choices. Joyce seems to have undergone transformation after having written the first version of his early life. He undertakes to rewrite himself in a new version of himself which requires sophistication in the art of expression as well.
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