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.