James Joyce: a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: the Creative Process of Stephen Dedalus

The main interest of many readers is in the gradual emergence of Stephen`s conviction that in order to survive as an artist he must shake himself free from the fetters of Church, Country and Family. I am going to show how Joyce deals with this theme of estrangement in his novel "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and I shall explain the Role of Women and Sexuality in Stephen Dedalus` Creative Process. In conclusion, I shall present the Daedalus Myth and its role in the book.