1.a consciousness novel writer
first novel: A Portrait of the Artist as a young man
Ulysses(1922), Joyce’s masterpiece, has become a prime example of modernism in literature.
It is a typical example of stream of consciousness novel Dubliners
Finnegans wake
2 Joyce is not a commercial writer
In Dubliners, each story presents an aspect of “dear dirty Dublin” an aspect of the city’s paralysis—moral, political, or spiritual.
The story are also important as example of Joyce’s theory of epiphany(顿悟) in fiction: each is concerned with a sudden revelation of truth about life inspired by a seemingly trivial incident.
3 In Ulysses , the events of the day seem to be trivial insignificance, or even banal. Bur below the surface of the events, the natural flow of mental reflection, the shifting moods and impulse in the characters’ inner world are richly presented in an unprecedentedly frank and penetration. Way.. In this novel, Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an instance of how a single event contains all the events of its kind.
4 Many critics think that Joyce is a great master of innovation. His radical experimentation ranges from ‘stream of consciousness’ to his fantastic engagements with rhetoric, sentimental romance, historical stylistic, counterpoint and expressionist drama