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Rising Timely and Untimely: On Joycean Anachronism

This essay focuses on the complexities of time, showing how the ghosts of events that happened after the day on which Ulysses is set on June 16, 1904—the Easter Rising and World War I—still haunt its pages. It argues that Joyce resists the eschatological narrative of nation building by refusing to predict Ireland’s future. Instead, it shows how Joyce embeds references to any given historical event in a nexus of other events that could have several different implications for a political future.