Parsons argues that "a writer's (or more generally a period's) ideological and epistemological position on the nature of reality will generally determine the narrative approach they take." (Parsons, 22, 2007) That era consciously embraced change, with artists and artisans rebelling against the conventions of their art form. Bergson's theories on consciousness emerged leading modernists like Joyce to experiment. Joyce responds to modernity by experimenting with the narrative form of subjective consciousness, to capture experience and its elusiveness