{"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":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Half-length portrait of man in his thirties. He looks to his right so that his face is in profile. He has a mustache, a thin beard, and medium-length hair slicked back, and wears a pince-nez and a plain dark greatcoat, looking vaguely like a Russian revolutionary.\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1e\/Revolutionary_Joyce_Better_Contrast.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"535\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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<p>Joyce is best known for <i>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 <i>Odyssey<\/i>. Other well-known works are the short-story collection <i>Dubliners<\/i> (1914), and the novel <i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/i> (1916).<\/p>\n<p>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 <em>Ulysses<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bloomsday - James Joyce\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yeDuK2hC4Ec?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731],"tags":[812,1355,57,1353,182,1350,1226,810,166,188,325,1354],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whichbookwouldyouread-bookoftheweek-themes-themeoftheweek-quotes-inspirationalquotes","tag-a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man","tag-bloomsday","tag-books","tag-dubliners","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-february-2015","tag-interesting-people","tag-james-joyce","tag-learn","tag-literature","tag-theme-of-the-week","tag-ulysses","cat_731"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions\/3306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}