Stephen Dedalus

By the second page, where Buck Mulligan called Stephen Dedalus a "woful lunatic" at the top of the Martello Tower, a more familiar "woeful" has been supplied.

Making the Wrong Joyce Kidd, John 1997

Next Tuesday marks the 105th anniversary of Bloomsday - the eventful day of 16 June 1904, on which a young aspiring writer called Stephen Dedalus, a Jewish advertising canvasser called Leopold Bloom and his adulterous songbird wife, Molly, played out a bonsai version of Homer's Odyssey in the streets of Dublin.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

(Mr. Rose's meddling with Joyce's use of the Miltonic "woful" has reverberated all the way to Beijing where translator Sylvan Nathans noticed I had called Stephen Dedalus the "woful lunatic."

'Making the Wrong Joyce': An Exchange Rose, Danis 1998

This is the theme that James Joyce takes over and develops in Ulysses—the awakening of his hero, Stephen Dedalus, to manhood through a shared compassion with Leopold Bloom.

Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

This is the theme that James Joyce takes over and develops in Ulysses—the awakening of his hero, Stephen Dedalus, to manhood through a shared compassion with Leopold Bloom.

Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  He changed the logo to read “Silence, Exile and Cunning,” the tools used by Stephen Dedalus in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” to express himself as wholly and freely as he can.

At the James Joyce Piggly Wiggly 2010

James Joyce, embarrassed to be publishing his early short stories in the Irish Homestead, became Stephen Dedalus (a moniker he'd later resurrect as a character in his novels).

Is the pen name mightier than the sword, or just a modern writer's flimsy foil? Tawny Tipples* 2010

The book, widely considered to be one of the greatest modern novels ever written, takes place over the span of just one day -- June 16, 1904 -- and follows the musings and adventures of two men living in Dublin, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus.

Bloomsday 2010: 'Ulysses' Celebrated Around The World (PHOTOS, POLL) 2010

Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him, equine in its length, and at the light untonsured hair, grained and hued like paleoak.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Blasphemy Made a Crime in Ireland: 2009

Then, catching sight of Stephen Dedalus, he bent towards him and made rapid crosses in the air, gurgling in his throat and shaking his head.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Blasphemy Made a Crime in Ireland: 2009