ABSTRACT
Like Cervantes, he turned with greater success to short narratives, and like him found in the dimensions of the long book, his form and his theme.
Ulysses brought a new method into literature, the interior monologue. The century-long advance of realism now confronted this task: the realistic description of consciousness. To realism, mind is a babbler, a stream of fleeting odds and ends of image and association. Joyce achieved this method with a mastery of fullness of illustration that effaces any question of precursors. He alone has been able to suggest the apparent incoherence and triviality of this incessant woolgathering, and yet to impose upon it a coordination beyond itself, in art….
