Michael Groden — James Joyce's Ulysses
English 454F — Fall 2007
Course
Home Page and Schedule
Bibliography — Books
on Reserve
Joyce on the Web
Notes on Ulysses
Classes: Mondays 7:00-10:00 - UC 282
Office: UC 383 - Office Hours: Mondays 3:30-4:20, Tuesdays
9:30-11:20
Phones: 661-2111 ext. 85831 (office), 661-3403 (English Dept.)
Email instructor - Instructor's home
page
Schedule
click on an episode's name to
see
the notes for that episode
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DATE
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READING
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GROUP PRESENTATIONS |
| Sept. 10 |
Introduction + start Dubliners - PDF download of PowerPoint slides |
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| Sept. 17 | finish Dubliners + start A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Chapters I, II, and III) - PDF download of PowerPoint slides |
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| Sept. 24 | finish A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Chapters IV and V) - PDF download of PowerPoint slides |
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| Oct. 1 | Ulysses: Episodes 1-3 ("Telemachus," "Nestor," "“Proteus"; pp. 3-42) + QUIZ 1 - PDF download of PowerPoint slides | |
| Oct. 8 | Thanksgiving - no class |
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| Oct. 15 | Ulysses: Episodes 4-6 ("Calypso," "Lotus Eaters," "Hades"; pp. 45-95) + QUIZ 2 - PDF download of PowerPoint slides |
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| Oct. 22 |
Ulysses: Episodes 7-9 ("Aeolus," "Lestrygonians," "Scylla
and Charybdis"; pp. 96-179) + QUIZ 3 - First essay DUE - PDF download of PowerPoint slides |
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| Oct. 29 | Ulysses: Episodes 10-11 ("Wandering Rocks,""Sirens"; pp. 180-239) + QUIZ 4 - PDF download of PowerPoint slides: Groden / Sirens group | "Sirens": Mandi Fink, Jeremy Greenway, Michael Gregoris, Stephanie Horak |
| Nov. 5 | Ulysses: Episodes 12-14 ("Cyclops,""Nausicaa," "Oxen
of the Sun"; pp. 240-349) + QUIZ 5 - PDF download of PowerPoint slides |
"Nausicaa": Denise Cooney, Justin Howlett, Stephanie Rade, Andrew Talbot |
| Nov. 12 | Ulysses: Episode 15 ("Circe"; pp. 350-497) + QUIZ 6 - PDF download of PowerPoint slides: Groden / Circe group |
"Circe": Andrew McCoomb, Samantha McCready, Ross Newton, Darren Schmidt |
| Nov. 19 | Ulysses: Episodes 16-17 ("Eumaeus," "Ithaca";
pp. 501-607) + QUIZ 7 - PDF download of PowerPoint slides |
"Ithaca": Nikki Lockington, Jon Richardson, Lindsay Ringuette, Erica Thomson |
| Nov. 26 | Ulysses: Episode 18 ("Penelope"; pp. 608-644)
+ QUIZ 8 - PDF download of PowerPoint slides |
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| Dec. 3 | Finnegans Wake: excerpts
to read |
Course Texts
James Joyce. Ulysses: The Gabler Edition (1922). Edited by Hans Walter
Gabler. Vintage, 1986, 1993.
James Joyce. Dubliners (1914). Edited by Jeri Johnson. Oxford UP,
2000.
James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Edited
by Jeri Johnson. Oxford UP, 2000.
James Joyce. Finnegans Wake (1939). Penguin, 1992.
Optional Texts
Don Gifford with Robert J. Seidman. "Ulysses" Annotated. Revised
edition. University of California Press, 1988.
Harry Blamires. The New Bloomsday Book. 3rd edition. Routledge, 1996.
+ an extensive set of notes on each episode (or click
on an episode's name in the Schedule to see
the notes for that episode)
Online Texts, Concordances, and Word Indexes to Ulysses
Finnegans Web (for Ulysses, scroll down screen at right)
James Joyce Database
Concord Project
On Reserve in Weldon Library (Joyce = PR 6019 . . .)
the two Optional Texts +
James Joyce. Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition. Edited by Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior. 3 volumes.
Wolfhard Steppe with Hans Walter Gabler. A Handlist to James Joyce's "Ulysses"
Assignments
1) first essay (1000 words) - due October 22 - 20%
2) final essay (2500 words) - due December 3 - 35%
3) group presentation - one of 4 presentations, lasting about an hour in total (see schedule above) - 25%
4) quizzes at beginning of each class dealing with Ulysses (8 reading quizzes in all, best 7 count) - 10%
5) attendance and participation - 10%
There will be no final examination in the course.