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--James Joyce ; ;James Joyce （1882—1941）; 1904:Started writing career after his mothers’ death ; ; In his writings, Joyce likes to use references to ancient stories and adopts a completely new style of writing which allows the reader to move inside the minds of the characters, and presents their thoughts and feelings in a continuous dream. This style is known as “stream of consciousness”, and it has had a powerful influence on the work of many other modernist writers. ; Joyce’s work is a record of the life, thoughts, dreams, aspirations and frustrations of diverse inhabitants in Dublin.; Joyce presents a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an instance of how a single event contains all the events of its kind, and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day. With complete objectivity and minute details of mans everyday routines, Joyce illustrates a symbolic picture of all human history. ; Written in a new style called stream of consciousness An important book of modernist literature Relates to various extended knowledge, such as literature, religion,politics and history, even near 30 kinds of language Combining author’s experience, Ulysses is considered as reflection of Joyce’s own history, Irish history and the history of mankind Telling the micro-epic taking place in western world Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous（亵渎神明的）, and unreadable Faced criticism; Ulysses originated from Greek mythology. The story, using stream-of-consciousness technique, parallel the major events in Odyssey（奥德赛） , whose Hero---Odysseus（奥德修斯）Latin name is Ulysses. Ulysses contained 18 episodes, each of their titles took from Greek mythology. ;; The whole novel can be divided into 3 acts , focuses on one day – June 16, 1904 – in the life of Mr. Leopold Bloom. Act I Episode 1-3: Focus on Stephen Dedalus: he gets up at 8 oclock on this specific day; he teaches a history class at a