Birthdays and anniversaries contribute to the recursive structure of Ulysses - life not as a straight line but cycles, spirals, loops.” A spooky walking tour “Personal, domestic, cultural, political and religious anniversaries abound in the novel and in his other work. “The novel takes place on June 16, 1904, likely the date of Joyce’s first assignation with Nora Barnacle, with whom he soon eloped to the continent,” he notes.
“No writer more valued anniversaries than James Joyce, who scrambled to ensure that Ulysses would appear on his 40th birthday,” Furlani says. The panel organized by the school will feature speakers including Andre Furlani, professor of English in Concordia’s Faculty of Arts and Science and a School of Irish Studies fellow, who is an avid Joyce fan. It was influenced by Joyce’s relationship with his wife, Nora. The book, which runs over 265,000 words, chronicles a day in the life of protagonist Leopold Bloom and other characters in his orbit. “As Joyce once commented, ‘I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.’” Murphy has organized three academic panels tied to Bloomsday, including a hybrid online-in-person edition this year. Why?” asks Miles Murphy, a Concordia Irish studies student graduating this spring. “ Ulysses has been around now for 100 years and still manages to puzzle, provoke, stimulate, tickle, befuddle, engage, infuriate, attract, irritate, compel, surprise and shock. And Concordia’s School of Irish Studies is joining in on Montreal’s Bloomsday Festival.
Joyceans - are marking the 100th anniversary of his classic book Ulysses.
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