ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Eliot’s mythical method seems to have made use of the explanatory element from the myth; when using a myth to create intertextuality between a contemporary and an ancient text the myth provides a well-known existing narrative or explanation which could affect the reading of the contemporary text.

Detailed explanation-2: -Other writers must follow this method, he argues. For Eliot, myth provides the writer with a stable frame through which to view and analyse the modern world. It is ‘a way of controlling, or ordering, of giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history’.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ulysses, a novel by the Irish writer James Joyce, is a key text of literary modernism. Divided into 18 chapters, it follows the structure of Homer’s Odyssey, the ancient Greek epic poem about Odysseus’s journey home from the Trojan War to his wife Penelope in Ithaca.

Detailed explanation-4: -Although the main strength of Ulysses lies in its depth of character portrayal and its breadth of humour, the book is most famous for its use of a variant of the interior monologue known as the stream-of-consciousness technique.