ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Modernism is marked by experimentation, particularly manipulation of form, and by the realization that knowledge is not absolute. a term typically associated with the twentieth-century reaction against realism and romanticism within the arts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Joyce’s novels are modernist novels, because the narrative is often irrelevant in comparison with what the events cause in the characters’ minds and because the interpretations of events are subjective. Time is subjective, because Joyce tries to follow the interior time and not the historical one.

Detailed explanation-3: -Joyce combined stream-of-consciousness, absurdist drama, mythical parallelism, and other techniques in a formal mélange that has had a profound impact on other modernists and future generations of novelists.

Detailed explanation-4: -James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.