ENG 41160: Approaches to Joyce I
Course Description:
This course will widen your understanding of James Joyce as one of the quintessential writers of modernity. You will learn why Joyce is such a revolutionary writer and why his work still spawns controversy. You will acquire a knowledge of the critical debates that Joyce's works have prompted, analyse Joyce's self-constructions in his fictional and journalistic writings, study a range of his early works, including his play Exiles, and spend time exploring some of the initial episodes of Ulysses. In preparation for this course, it is recommended that you read the primary texts and the critical works by Richard Ellmann and Hugh Kenner. A complete schedule and reading list will be distributed at the first meeting of this course.
Primary Texts:
- Joyce, James. Dubliners (Penguin)
- Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing (Oxford)
- Poems and Exiles (Penguin).
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin)
- Ulysses Gabler Edition (Penguin).
- Secondary Reading: Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Rev. Ed. 1959; Oxford: Oxford UP, 1966.
- Ulysses on the Liffey. London: Faber, 1972.
- The Consciousness of Joyce. London: Faber, 1977.
- Kenner, Hugh. Dublin's Joyce. London: Chatto and Windus, 1955.
- Joyce's Voices. London: Faber, 1978.
- Ulysses. Rev. Ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.