This book is called a brilliant literary feat, not because it's easy to read, but because it's unlike anything written before, or since.

Stephen Dedalus, in his scornful pride, rears his brow as a sort of Lucifer; poor Bloom, with his generous impulses and his attempts to understand and master life, is the epic symbol of reasoning ...

On the 16th of June, 1904, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom were both living in Dublin. Both differed from the people about them and walked in isolation among them because each was, according to ...

Kidney's game, In Ulysses, literally puts the player in Stephen Dedalus' shoes as he goes through Proteus, the infamously daunting third episode of the novel.

Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road contains at least one heretofore unrecognized likely allusion to Joyce's Ulysses: the father's description of his son as a “firedrake,” which recalls Stephen Dedalus's ...

And Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional stand-in, says it with less grace: "A father is a necessary evil." It's a cold line. But not the end of the story.

Late in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus confesses his crisis of Catholic faith to a close friend.The friend asks if he intends to become a Protestant. “I said that I had ...

Actors who played the role of Stephen Dedalus: Robert Brown [Off-Broadway] Add a Show Listing: Sign-up: News on your favorite shows, specials & more! EXPLORE REGIONS. Sign-up: ...