ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In Dubliners, Joyce primarily works within the genre of realist fiction.

Detailed explanation-2: -Joyce writes Dubliners in a “a style of scrupulous meanness”, which means that in his work, he wants to achieve an effect of verisimilitude. He used, for example names of actual pubs and hotels, churches and other distinctive features of the social life of his city.

Detailed explanation-3: -Joyce distinguishes realism from mimetic fidelity, from “the execution of faultless form”, praising “the infusion of life” more than the mere “copy” of nature. Secondly, Joyce progressively refines his notion of reality and the real, widening the very foundation on which any definition of literary realism could rest.

Detailed explanation-4: -Moreover, Joyce used a particular narrative technique, called “stream of consciousness”, a free representation of individual thoughts, so as they are in mind, before be they get logically organized logically in periods.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dubliners consists of fifteen short stories. These stories have common themes such as death, routine lifecycle, moral and material paralysis of some characters. Although the stories are about different events and characters, the commonality of aforementioned themes causes coherence in Dubliners in the sense of style.