English 9014A
James Joyce's Ulysses

 

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Michael Groden
Department of English
University of Western Ontario

Fall 2012

 

This course will primarily involve a concentrated reading of James Joyce's Ulysses. We will work through the book chapter by chapter and will be concerned with such issues as Joyce's modernist experimentations, the place of Ulysses within literary culture today, and critical approaches and trends to the book. As preparation for Ulysses, we will read Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce's play Exiles, and the sketch Giacomo Joyce, and the last week will deal with a few parts of Finnegans Wake.

Classes: Tuesdays 3:30-6:20 - UC 377
Office: UC 383 - Office Hours: Mondays 3:30-4:20, Tuesdays 10:30-11:20 and 1:30-2:20
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Schedule

NOTE: readings marked (*) are available in UC 180

DATE
READINGS AND TOPICS
PRESENTATION
Sept. 11

Introduction + start Dubliners
+ Michael Groden and Vicki Mahaffey, "Silence and Fractals in 'The Sisters'," in Collaborative "Dubliners": Joyce in Dialogue, ed. Vicki Mahaffey (Syracuse UP, 2012), pp. 23-47 (*)
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Sept. 18

finish Dubliners
+ Luke Gibbons, "'Have you no homes to go to?': Joyce and the Politics of Paralysis," in Semicolonial Joyce, ed. Derek Attridge and Marjorie Howes (Cambridge UP, 2000), pp. 150-71 (*)
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Sept. 25

start A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
+ Joseph Valente, "Thrilled By His Touch: Homosexual Panic and the Will to Artistry in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," James Joyce Quarterly 31:3 (Spring 1994): 167- 88 (online from Western Libraries)
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Oct. 2

finish A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man + Exiles (online), Giacomo Joyce (online)
+ Joyce's notes for Exiles, pp. 113-27 (*)
+ Ruth Bauerle, "Bertha's Role in Exiles," in Women in Joyce, ed. Suzette Henke and Elaine Unkeless (U of Illinois P., 1982), pp. 108-31 (*)
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Oct. 9

Ulysses: Episodes 1-3: "Telemachus," "Nestor," "Proteus" (pp. 3-42)
+ Marian Eide, Ethical Joyce (Cambridge UP, 2002), Ch. 2 (pp. 54-82) (*)
+ Declan Kiberd, "Ulysses" and Us (Faber & Faber, 2009), pp. 3-40 (*)

Tom Stuart (Telemachus)
Riley McDonald (Nestor)
Oct. 16

Ulysses: Episodes 4-6: "Calypso," "Lotus Eaters," "Hades" (pp. 45-95)
+ guest lecture on technology by Patrick Casey: reading = Herbert Sussman, Victorian Technology: Invention, Innovation, and the Rise of the Machine (Praeger, 2009), Ch. 2: "The Living Machine and the Victorian Computer" (pp. 38-53) (*)
+ Margot Norris, Virgin and Veteran Readings of "Ulysses" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Ch. 4 and 5 (pp. 85-114) (*)

 Kaelyn Crossland-Smith (Calypso)
Oct. 23

Ulysses: Episodes 7-9: "Aeolus," "Lestrygonians," "Scylla and Charybdis" (pp. 96-179)
+ Episode 7: Aeolus in The Little Review, Vol. 5, No. 6 (October 1918) (online)
+ Michael Groden, "Ulysses" in Progress (Princeton UP, 1977), Ch. 2 (pp. 64-114) (*)
+ Vicki Mahaffey, "Intentional Error: The Paradox of Editing Joyce's Ulysses," in Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation, ed. George Bornstein (U of Michigan P, 1991), pp. 171-91 (*)

 Kim Rodda (Lestrygonians)
Logan Rohde (Scylla and Charybdis)
Oct. 30

Ulysses: Episodes 10-12: "Wandering Rocks," "Sirens," "Cyclops" (pp. 180-283)
+ Enda Duffy, The Subaltern "Ulysses" (U of Minnesota P, 1994), Ch. 3 (pp. 93-129) (*)
+ Michael Groden, "Joyce at Work on 'Cyclops': Toward a Biography of Ulysses," James Joyce Quarterly 44:2 (Winter 2007): 217-45 (online from Western Libraries)

 Richard Moran (Wandering Rocks)
Jeremy Colangelo (Cyclops)
Nov. 6

Ulysses: Episodes 13-14: "Nausicaa," "Oxen of the Sun" (pp. 284-349)
+ Mark S. Morrisson, The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception 1905-1920 (U of Wisconsin P, 2001), Ch. 4 (pp. 133-66) (*)
+ Paul K. Saint-Amour, The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination (Cornell UP, 2003), Ch. 5 (pp. 159-98) (*)
+ Sean Latham, The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman à Clef (Oxford UP, 2009), from Ch. 5 (pp. 89-105) (*)

 Emily Kring (Nausicaa)
Evan Wynter (Oxen of the Sun)
Nov. 13

Ulysses: Episode 15: "Circe" (pp. 350-497)
+ Cheryl Herr, "'One Good Turn Deserves Another': Theatrical Cross-Dressing in Joyce's 'Circe' Episode," Journal of Modern Literature 11:2 (July 1984): 263-76 (online from Western Libraries)
+ Daniel Ferrer, "The Joyce of Manuscripts," in A Companion to James Joyce, ed. Richard Brown (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), pp. 286-99 (*)

 Kevin Shaw (Circe)
Jason Sunder (Circe)
Nov. 20

Ulysses: Episodes 16-17: "Eumaeus," "Ithaca" (pp. 501-607)
+ Karen R. Lawrence, "'Beggaring Description': Politics and Style in Joyce's 'Eumaeus'," Modern Fiction Studies 38:2 (Summer 1992): 355-76 (online from Western Libraries)
+ L. H. Platt, "'If Brian Boru Could But Come Back and See Old Dublin Now': Materialism, the National Culture and Ulysses 17," in Joyce's "Ithaca," ed. Andrew Gibson, European Joyce Studies 6 (1996): 105-32 (*)

 Andy Murkovic (Ithaca)
Nov. 27 Ulysses: Episode 18: "Penelope" (pp. 608-644)
+ Maud Ellmann, "Penelope Without the Body," in Joyce, "Penelope," and the Body, ed. Richard Brown, European Joyce Studies 17 (2006): 97-108 (*)
+ Michael Groden, "Ulysses" in Focus; Genetic, Textual, and Personal Views (UP of Florida, 2010), part of Ch. 2 and Epilogue (pp. 32-37, 185-94) (*)

Kara Barfett (Penelope)
Dec. 4 Finnegans Wake: Book I, Chapter 8 (pp. 196-216), available in many print versions or online (move forward page-by-page through 216)
Finnegans Wake: introductory notes
+ Sebastian D. G. Knowles, "Finnegans Wake for Dummies," James Joyce Quarterly 46:1 (Fall 2008): 97-111 (online from Western Libraries)
+ Tim Conley, "Finnegans Wake: Some Assembly Required," in James Joyce: Visions and Revisions, ed. Sean Latham (Irish Academic Press, 2010), pp. 132-52 (*)
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Texts

1) James Joyce. Ulysses: The Gabler Edition (1922). Edited by Hans Walter Gabler. Vintage, 1986, 1993; Bodley Head, 2008 (this edition of Ulysses only).
2) James Joyce. Dubliners (1914). Edited by Jeri Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2000 (or any edition of Dubliners).
3) 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

1) James Joyce. Finnegans Wake (1939). Penguin, 1992 (or any printing of Finnegans Wake).
2) Harry Blamires. The New Bloomsday Book. 3rd edition. Routledge, 1996.
3) Don Gifford with Robert J. Seidman. "Ulysses" Annotated. Revised edition. University of California Press, 1988 (or 20th-anniversary reprint, 2008).

Online Texts, Concordances, and Word Indexes to Ulysses

Finnegans Web (text; for Ulysses, scroll down screen at right)
Concord Project (a word index to Uysses)

On Reserve in Weldon Library (Joyce = PR 6019 . . .)

Harry Blamires. The New Bloomsday Book. 3rd edition. 1996.
Don Gifford with Robert J. Seidman. "Ulysses" Annotated. 1988.

Assignments

1) oral presentation (20 minutes) during one class from October 9 to November 27 and short essay (around 5 pages) based on presentation, due one week after presentation - 40%

2) essay at end of course (12-15 pages) - due December 18 - 50%

3) participation - 10%

Presentations:
Oct. 9: Telemachus, Proteus
Oct. 16: Calypso
Oct. 23: Aeolus
Oct. 30: Cyclops (2)
Nov. 6: Nausicaa, Oxen of the Sun
Nov. 13: Circe (2)
Nov. 20: Eumaeus, Ithaca
Nov. 27: Penelope (2)

Note

Scholastic offences are taken seriously and students are directed to read the appropriate policy,
specifically the definition of what constitutes a Scholastic Offence, at the following Website:
http://www.uwo.ca/univsec/handbook/appeals/scholastic_discipline_grad.pdf
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