English 9014A
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Michael
Groden
Department
of English
University of Western Ontario
Fall 2011
Classes: Tuesdays
12:30-3:30 - UC 377
Office: UC 383 - Office Hours: Mondays
3:30-4:20, Tuesdays 10:30-11:20 and 3:30-4:20
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Schedule
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DATE
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READINGS AND TOPICS
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PRESENTATION
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| Sept. 13 |
Introduction |
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| Sept. 20 |
Dubliners |
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| Sept. 27 |
A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
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| Oct. 4 |
Ulysses: Episodes 1-9: "Telemachus,"
"Nestor,"
"Proteus,"
"Calypso,"
"Lotus
Eaters," "Hades,"
"Aeolus,"
"Lestrygonians,"
"Scylla
and Charybdis" (pp. 3-179) |
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| Oct. 11 |
Ulysses: Episodes 10-15: "Wandering
Rocks," "Sirens,"
"Cyclops,"
"Nausicaa,"
"Oxen
of the Sun," "Circe"
(pp. 180-497) |
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| Oct. 18 |
Ulysses: Episodes 16-18: "Eumaeus," "Ithaca," "Penelope" (pp. 501-644) |
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| Oct. 25 |
Ulysses: Episodes 1-3: "Telemachus,"
"Nestor,"
"Proteus"
(pp. 3-42) |
Emily Germain (Nestor) Alex Madsen (Proteus) |
| Nov. 1 |
Ulysses: Episodes 4-6: "Calypso,"
"Lotus
Eaters," "Hades"
(pp. 45-95) |
Aiden Brydon (Calypso) Ali Narafshan (Lotus Eaters) |
| Nov. 8 |
Ulysses: Episodes 7-9: "Aeolus,"
"Lestrygonians,"
"Scylla
and Charybdis" (pp. 96-179) |
Meghan Adams (Aeolus) |
| Nov. 15 |
Ulysses: Episodes 10-12: "Wandering Rocks," "Sirens," "Cyclops" (pp. 180-283) |
Zac Fanni (Wandering Rocks) Katherine Meloche (Cyclops) |
| Nov. 22 |
Ulysses: Episodes 13-15: "Nausicaa,"
"Oxen
of the Sun," "Circe"
(pp. 284-497) |
Trent Gill (Nausicaa) Philip Spurrell (Circe) |
| Nov. 29 | Ulysses: Episodes 16-18: "Eumaeus,"
"Ithaca,"
"Penelope"
(pp. 501-644) |
Meghan O'Hara (Eumaeus) |
| Dec. 6 | Finnegans Wake:
excerpts to read Finnegans Wake: introductory notes PDF download of PowerPoint presentation |
Possible Seminar Topics (topics not limited to these)
Irishness and/or nationalism and/or Ireland's
"postcolonial" situation
sexuality and/or gender and/or masculinity and/or femininity
and/or queer theory
religion and/or Catholicism and/or Judaism
modernism and/or postmodernism
popular culture and/or consumer culture
philosophy and/or theology
approaches to Shakespeare
Homer and/or medieval literature
18th-/19th-century literature
journalism and newspapers
theatre
music: classical and/or popular
painting
ethics
the body
medicine
narrative structure and/or closure
the law: copyright and/or libel
grammar and/or punctuation
manuscripts and/or textual editing
Texts
James Joyce. Ulysses: The Gabler Edition (1922). Edited by Hans Walter Gabler. Vintage, 1986, 1993; Bodley Head, 2008 (this edition of Ulysses only).
James Joyce. Dubliners (1914). Edited by Jeri Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2000 (or any edition of Dubliners).
James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Edited by Jeri Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2000 (or any edition of Portrait).
Optional Texts
James Joyce. Finnegans Wake (1939). Penguin, 1992 (or any printing of Finnegans Wake).
Harry Blamires. The New Bloomsday Book. 3rd edition. Routledge, 1996.
Don Gifford with Robert J. Seidman. "Ulysses"
Annotated. Revised edition. University of California
Press, 1988 (or 20th-anniversary reprint, 2008).
Assignments
1) short essay (around 5 pages) - due October 25 - 20%
2) oral presentation (around 30 minutes in all, including discussion ) - during one of the weeks from October 25 to November 29 - 40%
3) essay at end of course (12-15 pages) - due December 20 - 40%