Joyce’s modernistic view of Dublin society permeates all of his writings. The Irish experiences account for a large portion of Joyce’s writings. Stephen Dedalus is sometimes Joyce’s pseudonym and represents Joyce and his life in Joyce’s works. Joyce plays a crucial role in the modernist movement in literature. Some of the well known innovative techniques used by Joyce are symbolism, realism and stream-of consciousness. James Joyce’s writings contain autobiographical matter and display his view of life in Dublin, Ireland with the use of symbolism, realism, and stream-of consciousness.
Joyce was born into a middle-class, Catholic family in Dublin, Ireland on February 2, 1882 and wrote all his works about that city, even though he lived outside Ireland from 1904 on. The family’s lack of financial prosperity forced them to move to an impoverished area in North Dublin. Joyce’s parents still managed to send him to Clongowes Wood College, Belvedere College and later to the University......
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