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1 MODERNISM Writers in comparison

2 HENRY JAMES’S THEMES Clash between cultures, good and evil, appearance and reality, Ambiguity, Education

3 JAMES JOYCE’S THEMES Paralysis, Alienation, Sterility, Emptiness, Escape, Sex, Sense of Past

4 T. S. ELIOT’S THEMES Alienation, Sterility, Emptiness, Sense of Past and History, Search for God as an answer

5 HENRY JAMES’S Narrative technique
Impersonal narrator, Complex narrative frame, Quotations, Symbolism, Ambiguity, Use of Dialogue, Hints rather than statements HENRY JAMES’S Narrative technique

6 JAMES JOYCE’S Narrative technique
Stream of consciousness technique, Free In/Direct Speech, Impersonal narrator, quotations, Symbolism, Ambiguity, Interior monologue, Hints rather than statements JAMES JOYCE’S Narrative technique

7 T. S. ELIOT’S Narrative technique
Impersonality, quotations, Symbolism, Ambiguity, Objective correlative, Hints rather than statements, Mixture of tones T. S. ELIOT’S Narrative technique

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