... is celebrated as one of the great literary of the twentieth century. He was one of the first writers to make extensive and convincing use of stream of conciousness, a stylistic form in which written prose represents the characters' stream of inner thoughts and perceptions rather than render these characters form an objective, external perspective. This technique, used in this novel mostly during the opening ... , Stephen works to formulate his theories about art. While he is dependent on his friends as listeners, he is also determined to create an independent existence, liberated from th...

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