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(Boime, et. al.).

Similarly, author James Joyce helped define the modernist novel by taking the traditionalist concept of telling a coming of age story and adding to it the modernist characteristics of open form, free verse, discontinuous narrative and classical allusions. The result is a novel that, like Starry Night, captures the movement and color of the real world.

Perhaps no other work of Joyce's demonstrates his modernist characteristics then his magna opus, Ulysses. At its core, Ulysses is a retelling of the classic tale by Homer, the Odyssey.

One of the main uses of modernism is found in the final, unpunctuated chapter, popularly referred to as Molly Bloom's Soliloquy, a long, free verse (or stream of consciousness) passage that list her thoughts as she lies in bed next to the main character, Leopold Bloom.

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This is a key modernist passage as it reads as human dreams or thoughts really do- as an unorganized, or unpunctuated, process. (Blamires, p. 120).

Clearly, both Van Gogh's Starry Night and James Joyce's Ulysses are important modernist works as they both create essential characteristics now commonly associated with modernism. Further, they serve as a bridge between the traditional and the modern, making them key works in the modernist catalog......

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