“From Baby Tackoo To Sunny Jim”: Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” As Fictional Biography

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Published: Jun 30, 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2011-2-1-254
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Stephen Dedalus autobiographical elements A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Nicoleta Stanca
Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania

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The reader must not identify Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with James Joyce in every respect. For instance, Stephen is represented at Clongowes as a timid boy, conscious of his smallness and weakness. Conversely, young Joyce was keen on hurdling and cricket, won cups in sports competitions and earned the nickname “Sunny Jim” due to his cheerful disposition. This paper will trace autobiographical elements in the novel with the purpose to prove that they are meant not as mere recordings of particular autobiographical experiences but as instances of universality. Hence, the choice of the novel title, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

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Stanca, N. ““From Baby Tackoo To Sunny Jim”: Joyce’s ‘A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man’ As Fictional Biography”. Linguaculture, vol. 2, no. 1, June 2011, pp. 37-44, doi:10.47743/lincu-2011-2-1-254.
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Nicoleta Stanca, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania

Nicoleta Stanca has been teaching at Ovidius University Constanta, the Faculty of Letters, seminars and lectures in nineteenth-century Victorian culture to twentieth-century English and Irish literature and popular culture. She has an MA degree in Cultural Studies from Ovidius University and a Ph.D. degree from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi. She has published a book-length study on Seamus Heaney, Duality of Vision in Seamus Heaney’s Writings (ExPonto, Constanta, 2009), and a number of articles on Irish literature and culture in academic volumes and journals in Romania. She has participated in national and international conferences. She is a member of Ireland-Romania Network, of the Romanian Association for American Studies and of the Romanian Society for English and American Studies.