Which novel did T. S. Eliot praise for utilizing a new "mythical method" in place of the old "narrative method" and demonstrates the use of ancient mythology in modernist fiction to think about "making the modern world possible for art" ?
Correct answer: D. James Joyce's Ulysses
- A. Virginia Woolf's The Waves
- B. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
- C. James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake
- D. James Joyce's Ulysses
Explanation
In his essay on Joyce, Eliot praised Ulysses for replacing straightforward narrative with a mythic structure that parallels ancient stories with modern life. The novel's title and episodes deliberately invoke Homer's Odyssey.
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