The Employment Of Style In James Joyce's Dubliners

James Joyce is one of the greatest Ireland novelists in the twentieth century, as well as an outstanding representative of the modernist novels of the Western world. His writing exercises great influence on the development of the western literature. Sometimes he is compared with Dickens as two writers after Shakespeare. The short story corpus, Dubliners, is one of his masterworks. In the collection, Joyce chooses Dublin, the capital of Ireland, as the background, and presents to us vivid description of the life in Dublin at the beginning of the last century. In the present thesis, the author is going to investigates Dubliners through stylistic approach. Several short stories from Dubliners are selected as the subject of study, so as to discover the employment of stylistic features of the corpus. The emphasis is put on Speech and Thought presentation in the stories. The author of this paper hopes to provide objective evidence for the stories' aesthetic value through describing and analyzing the chosen linguistic features and their stylistic effects, thus enabling readers to understand and appreciate better the subject's significance and artistic value.