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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce.Partially serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's fortieth birthday.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the second novel of Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1916.A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to Daedalus, Greek mythology's consummate craftsman.
James Joyce was a major modernist writer whose strategies employed in his novel Ulysses (1922) for depicting the events during a twenty-four-hour period in the life of his protagonist, Leopold Bloom, have come to epitomize modernism's approach to fiction. The poet T. S. Eliot described these qualities in 1923, noting that Joyce's technique is ...
The term has a more specialized sense as a literary device distinct to modernist fiction. [1] Author James Joyce first borrowed the religious term "Epiphany" and adopted it into a profane literary context in Stephen Hero (1904–1906), an early version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In that manuscript, Stephen Daedalus defines ...
Modernism is a major literary movement of the first part of the twentieth-century. The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. Irish writers were especially important in the twentieth-century, including James Joyce and later Samuel Beckett, both central figures in the Modernist movement
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, ... (1938). Then in 1939 James Joyce's Finnegans Wake appeared.
Joyce's modernist style entailed using dashes for dialogue rather than quotation marks. [14] He asked that they be used in the printed text, but was refused. [ 15 ] Dubliners was the only work by Joyce to use quotation marks, but dashes are now substituted in all critical and most popular editions.