Introduction / William M. Schutte -- Interpretations -- A portrait of the artist as a young man / J. I. M. Stewart -- Stephen Hero / Joseph Prescott -- The portrait in perspective / Hugh Kenner -- The structure of the portrait / Richard Ellmann -- A portrait of the artist as a young man: Motif as motivation and structure / Lee T. Lemon -- The artist and the rose / Barbara Seward -- Art and life: the aesthetic of the protrait / S. L. Goldberg -- The problem of distance in a portrait of the artist / Wayne C. Booth -- Irony in Joyce's portrait: the stasis of pity / F. Parvin Sharpless -- View points -- Harry Levin -- Eugene M. Waith -- Richard Ellmann -- James Naremore -- Dorothy Van Ghent -- Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch -- Florence L. Walzl -- Irene Hendry Chayes.