English 9096A
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Fall 2013
Department
of English
University of Western
Ontario
Course
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Classes: Tuesdays
12:30-3:20 PM - UC 377
Office: UC 383 - Office Hours: Mondays
3:30-4:20, Tuesdays 10:30-11:20, 3:30-4:20
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This course will
primarily involve a concentrated reading of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. We will work through
the book chapter by chapter, not from front to back, however,
but rather in an order based on but modified from the one
suggested in Sebastian Knowles' James Joyce Quarterly
article "Finnegans Wake
for Dummies." We will also be concerned with such issues
as Joyce's modernist experiments, the place of Finnegans Wake
within literary culture today, and critical approaches and
trends to the book. Each student will follow a particular
chapter-by-chapter critical guide to the book and will
introduce one chapter of the Wake and co-lead a
discussion of one short passage. Previous experience with Finnegans Wake, with
Ulysses, or with
Joyce's earlier writings is not required.
Schedule
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DATE
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CHAPTER(S)
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DISCUSSION PASSAGE
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INTRODUCTION |
| Sept. 10 |
Introduction: at Finnegans Wake |
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| Sept. 17 |
I.5 (pp. 104-125) and I.6 (pp. 126-168) |
152.15-155.03 [155.04-159.20] | |
| Sept. 24 | I.7 (pp. 169-195) and I.8 (pp. 196-216) | 213.11-216.05 | |
| Oct. 1 | IV (pp. 593-628) |
626.07-628.16 [619.20-626.07] |
Donnie Calabrese Riley McDonald |
| Oct. 8 |
I.1 (pp. 3-29) and I.2 (pp. 30-47) | 21.5-24.15 |
Geoffrey Morrison |
| Oct. 15 |
I.3 (pp. 48-74) and I.4 (pp. 75-103) | 57.16-61.27 |
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| Oct. 22 |
II.1 (pp. 219-259) and II.4 (pp. 383-399) PDF download of Alex Carrillo-Hayley's PowerPoint presentation |
395.26-399.34 |
Alex Carrillo-Hayley (II.1) Marc Mazur (II.4) |
| Oct. 29 | II.2 (pp. 260-308) PDF download of Jeremy Colangelo's PowerPoint presentation |
293.01-297.15 [297.15-302.10] | Jeremy Colangelo Peter Szuban |
| Nov. 5 | II.3 (pp. 309-382) PDF download of Mike Gyssels and Samantha Pennington's PowerPoint presentation |
342.33-346.13 | Mike Gyssels Samantha Pennington |
| Nov. 12 | III.1 (pp. 403-428) and III.4 (pp. 555-590) PDF download of Shazia Sadaf's PowerPoint presentation |
414.14-419.10 | Shazia Sadaf (III.1) Jason Sunder (III.4) |
| Nov. 19 |
III.2 (pp. 429-473) |
452.08-457.04 | Ishan Dasgupta |
| Nov. 26 |
III.3 (pp. 474-554) | 494.15-501.06 |
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| Dec. 3 | Conclusion: Lots of Fun |
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Text
James Joyce. Finnegans Wake (1939).
Oxford World's Classics, 2012 or any printing containing the
text on 628 pages.
Texts of Finnegans Wake with line
numbers are available on Donald Theall's Finnegans Web
site at Trent University and on George Sandulescu's Sandulescu Online.
An elaborate word-by-word set of annotations is
available on the FinnegansWiki
Website.
A Word version of the text is available here.
Optional Text
Roland McHugh. Annotations to "Finnegans
Wake." 3rd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2006.
Useful
Chapter-by-Chapter Books
Joseph Campbell & Henry Morton Robinson, A Skeleton Key to
Finnegans Wake
Luca Crispi & Sam Slote, ed., How Joyce Wrote Finnegans
Wake
Edmund Lloyd Epstein, A Guide Through Finnegans
Wake (2009)
John Gordon, Finnegans
Wake: A Plot Summary (1986)
Joyce, ed. David Hayman, A First-Draft Version of
Finnegans Wake
Danis Rose & John O’Hanlon, Understanding Finnegans
Wake (1982)
William York Tindall, A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake
(1969)
Revised Assignments
1) introduce one chapter of Finnegans Wake during
one class between October 8 and November 26 (15-20 min.) - 40%
2) final essay (15-20 pages) - due December 17 - 50%
3) participation - 10%
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
Academic Handbook, Exam, Course Outlines Page 4 - Issued:
2011-02