Science v/s Superstition

Ted Talk on Superstition

James Joyce

 

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“James Joyce: his writing
is not about

something. It is the thing itself.”

_Samuel Beckett

James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, teacher, and a literary critic. He was born and brought up in a very poor family. He was the eldest child of his family and he had received education from Jesuit schools. He has left Ireland to pursue the life of a poet and writer. Writers as illustrious as Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner were strongly influenced by Joyce’s innovative narrative techniques. Two major characteristics of his works are:

1)   Autobiographical elements

2)   Use of Stream of Consciousness

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    Major Works:

1)   Ulysses

2)   APortrait of the Artist as a Young Man

3)   Dubliners

4)   FinnegansWake