Ulysses (Seminar)

Ulysses was an ENGL 7340 course offering in the Spring of 2009 taught by Beth Newman

Course Description
A study of Joyce’s iconic, monumental, encyclopedic novel, published in 		1922, about a single day in the lives primarily of two Dublin citizens  		on June 16, 1904. We will prepare by reading and discussing 		Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, but we  		will spend most of our sessions on Ulysses itself. Our main task 		will be to read the novel—with attention to its moving human  		stories, its experimental modes of representation, and its exuberant  		linguistic virtuosity and play. But we will also place the novel in 		such critical and historical contexts of turn-of-the-century Dublin;  		English colonialism; Jewishness and European anti-Semitism; reception  		and canon formation; influential critical approaches (above all,  		feminist, post-structuralist, psychoanalytic, and post-colonial).

Required Texts

 * Don Gifford, with Robert J. Seidman, Ulysses Annotated
 * Stuart Gilbert, James Joyce’s Ulysses
 * James Joyce, Dubliners
 * James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
 * James Joyce, Ulysses
 * Margot Norris, ed. Companion to James Joyce’s Ulysses