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In this seminar, we shall focus on Ulysses. This novel will be placed in context by means of samples drawn from Joyce’s earlier and later work (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake).
Ulysses is essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century English literature (as well as twentieth-century word literature). This novel is challenging and fascinating. It presents readers new to it with a characteristic mixture of mild frustration and mind-boggling fun. We shall attempt a close reading of as much of Ulysses as we can manage, therefore much depends on thorough preparation and active participation.
Please buy one the following edition (and none other) now: James Joyce (ed. Declan Kibberd), Ulysses. Annotated Student Edition. Penguin Classics. Start reading as soon as you have the book. More material (from Portrait and Finnegan’s Wake) will be made available in the course of the semester. If you want to do this seminar, you should have bought the text and prepared the first three chapters (known as Telemachus, Nestor and Proteus, pp. 1-64) before the first week of the new semester – so think, annotate, look things up if necessary and, above all, enjoy!
Formal requirements: regular attendance, reading and preparing the assigned texts, active participation, Hausarbeit. |
