The Modernistic Features Of Joyce’s Dubliners

Dubliners is one of the most successful works of James Joyce, who is the mostoutstanding and obscure modernistic writer in the20thcentury. Dubliners is composedof15stories and can be divided into childhood, adolescence, maturity and public lifeaccording to time sequence. The collection illustrates the paralytic life of Dublinersunder the double oppression of religion and politics at the turn of the century.Joyce makes special efforts to articulate the psychological experience of thecharacters from disillusionment to paralysis and then death and their isolated anddepressed living status. In order to reveal the complicated and transitory psychologicalactivities of characters, Joyce employs several creative writing techniques, such asepiphany, symbolism, shifts of point of view and loss of plot.This thesis is to analyze these modernistic features of Dubliners from the aspectsof themes and techniques.