All 5 Uses of
theme
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Because the theme of the false or the usurping or the adulterous brother or all three in one is to Shakespeare, what the poor are not, always with him.†
Chpt 9
- All songs on that theme.†
Chpt 11 *
- The debaters were the keenest in the land, the theme they were engaged on the loftiest and most vital.†
Chpt 14
- …composed during schoolyears, seemed to him to contain in itself and in conjunction with the personal equation certain possibilities of financial, social, personal and sexual success, whether specially collected and selected as model pedagogic themes (of cent per cent merit) for the use of preparatory and junior grade students or contributed in printed form, following the precedent of Philip Beaufoy or Doctor Dick or Heblon's Studies in Blue, to a publication of certified circulation…†
Chpt 17
- Did the host encourage his guest to chant in a modulated voice a strange legend on an allied theme?†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(theme as in: theme of the novel) a basic idea that underlies what is being said or done -- especially in a literary or artistic work