ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

JAMES JOYCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In Ulysses, which experimental technique(s) does Joyce use?
A
puns
B
parodies
C
unconventional syntax
D
All of the Above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In Ulysses, Joyce uses interior monologue extensively, and instead of employing one narrative voice, Joyce radically shifts narrative style with each new episode of the novel. Joyce’s early work reveals the stylistic influence of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

Detailed explanation-2: -Joyce began the novel in a stream-of-consciousness or “interior monologue” technique that developed naturally out of his experiments in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).

Detailed explanation-3: -One of humanity’s great masterpieces, James Joyce’s Ulysses celebrates the strength of spirit required to endure the trials of everyday life, exploring the patterns of human thought while also fostering an appreciation for differences between people.

Detailed explanation-4: -Modernism. Ulysses was released in the same year as T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland (1922). In the way that Eliot’s poem is treated as the modernist poem, Ulysses is generally regarded as the modernist novel.

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