Significance of the Name Stephan Dedalus in James Joyce’s “A Portrait”
In James Joyce 's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus has been a spiritual exile from his social surroundings since childhood. When he is at the Belvedere College he champions Byron, Shelley and Ibsen. He is accused of heresy in an essay and sees himself "proud and sensitive and... Sign in to see full entry.