{"id":3302,"date":"2015-02-02T17:19:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T13:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:17:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:17:37","slug":"theme-of-the-week-james-joyce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/theme-of-the-week-james-joyce\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme of the Week: James Joyce"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century.<\/p>\n
Joyce is best known for Ulysses<\/i> (1922), a landmark work which follows the movements of Leopold Bloom through a single day in 1904. Ulysses is based on Homer\u2019s Odyssey<\/i>. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners<\/i> (1914), and the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/i> (1916).<\/p>\n
Enjoy a video below about Bloomsday, a celebration that takes place both in Dublin and around the world. It celebrates Thursday, 16 of June 1904, which is the day depicted in James Joyce\u2019s novel Ulysses<\/em>.<\/p>\n