| Joyce's first major work, Dubliners, a collection of | | | | the husband/wife relationship. Joyce began work |
| fifteen short stories, was published in 1914. They | | | | on his magnum opus, Ulysses, in 1914, completing |
| concentrate on the idea of an epiphany, a | | | | it in 1921. It was published in 1922 by Sylvia |
| moment when the main protagonist gains | | | | Beach's Shakespeare and Company. In Ulysses, |
| self-awareness or understanding. The stories | | | | Joyce employs the technique of stream of |
| follow a logical order from childhood to | | | | consciousness and the action all takes place on |
| adolescence to maturity and finally death, the last | | | | one single day, 16 June 1904. The book consists |
| story being entitled "The Dead." "A Portrait of the | | | | of eighteen chapters, each roughly covering one |
| Artist as a Young Man," an almost complete | | | | hour of the day, beginning around 8am and |
| re-write of an abandoned novel called Stephen | | | | finishing around 2am the following morning with |
| Hero was published in 1916. It is a biographical | | | | each of the chapters employing its own literary |
| novel depicting the coming of age of a young | | | | style. |
| man, Stephen Dedalus, the fictional alter ego of | | | | He began work on Finnegan's Wake in 1923, |
| Joyce. | | | | however progress was slow due mainly to |
| The book was to pioneer some of Joyce's | | | | declining health and failing eyesight, it was finally |
| modernist techniques that would be used widely in | | | | published in 1939. It abandoned all conventions of |
| his later works, including interior monologue. His | | | | plot, character construction and the language used |
| only published play, Exiles (1918) was a study of | | | | is peculiar and obscure. |