ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -James Joyce’s most important works were the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (published in book form in 1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939).

Detailed explanation-2: -The work Joyce is most famous for, Ulysses, was published in 1922. The novel, taking place entirely on June 16, 1904 (now known as Bloomsday), is a dissection of the mind of Leopold Bloom as he wanders about Dublin.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -James Joyce’s “Ulysses” is widely considered to be both a literary masterpiece and one of the hardest works of literature to read. It inspires such devotion that once a year, thousands of people all over the world dress up like the characters, take to the streets, and read the book aloud.