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Bloomsday 2004
Author(s) -
MacCabe Colin
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
critical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1467-8705
pISSN - 0011-1562
DOI - 10.1111/j.0011-1562.2004.00586.x
Subject(s) - history , barnacle , classics , literature , performance art , art , art history , biology , botany , larva
The sixteenth of June 2004 saw the centenary of Bloomsday, the temporal setting of James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Dublin seemed given over to the anniversary of a book not a word of which was written in Ireland, and all over the world there were celebrations A secular feast where people of almost all languages and certainly all literatures were linked together to commemorate a day. But what does the day commemorate? Not the death of a god, nor the delivery of a people from an avenging angel, nor even the establishment of the rule of the just. I think it is generally agreed by Joyce scholars that it marks James Joyce's first date with Nora Barnacle.