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James Joyce (1882-1941);James Joyce is one of the most innovative novelists of the 20th century and one of the great masters of “the stream of consciousness” ;a leading modernist, and one of the greatest innovators in the English language. experimented with stream-of-consciousness, the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. his literary achievements and creativity are influential even today. ;James Joyce: Biography;;In 1904 he left Dublin with Nora Barnacle, a chambermaid whom he eventually married. They and their two children lived in Trieste, Italy, in Paris, and in Zürich, Switzerland, meagerly supported by Joyces jobs as a language instructor and by gifts from patrons. After 20 years in Paris, early in World War II, when the Germans invaded France, Joyce moved to Zürich, where he died on January 13, 1941 ;James Joyce’s work---Dubliners;Although all set in Dublin and focused upon the themes of death, disease and paralysis throughout, Dubliners is a collection of short stories only interconnected by symbols and moods. They are not as bleak as their themes suggest, at least not in all cases, and are often heartening in their subtle evocations of experience common to all. ;Joyce on Dubliners;;Dubliners is about people’s spiritual growth. All the characters in the stories struggle, in one way or another with oppressive morality, personal frustrations, or restless desires. They are ordinary people involved in various minor yet meaningful events in everyday life. Often, these characters are on the brink of discovering something, such as loss, shame, failure, or death . ; These stories contain no melodramatic conflict; instead , they present those quiet moments in the characters’ lives when they come to a sudden realization of the meaning of their existence (an epiphany). ;In Dubliners, James Joyce made use of epiphany to show the complex emotion. At the end