Ulysses (novel) by James Joyce Thematic Unit216 Guided Reading / Common Core Aligned QuestionsUlyssesUlysses is usually deemed to be Joyce’s greatest achievement, and it is the zenith of modernist writing in the novel form but is barely recognizable as a novel or as any other kind of writing. It brings together anecdotes, journalistic writing, drama, questionnaire, bawdy episodes, stream-of-consciousness writing, archaisms, neologisms, and - surprisingly - more. It was serialized first in the Li