English 419.01: Prof. Christy Burns Classroom: Tucker 213 Office: Tucker 210 Wed. 3:00-5:30 p.m. Office hours Wed 2-3 e-mail: [email protected] (best way to reach me) & by appointment Phone: 1-3168

Course Goals: To read James Joyce’s , Portrait , “,” and portions of in the context of avant-garde experimentalism in the 1920s, Irish history, and the social, political, and artistic implications of these texts in the 21 st century. Special emphasis will be place on gender, sexuality, Irish national debates, and aesthetics. Students will write two formal research papers: one on Portrait and the “Telemachaid” (1 st 3 chapters of Ulysses) and one on an episode of Ulysses . In each paper, students will use at least one scholarly essay. Students should develop library research skill and analytic abilities.

Grading and Assignments: Students are expected to * Attend every class, with the reading for that day thoroughly prepared. Participation is crucial in this class; students should miss no more than one class and anyone absent for four risks failing the semester. * Give a short presentation on one of the critical essays listed on the syllabus. This should be five minutes and should give us a succinct synthesis including description of the essay’s main points (three or more), using key quotes, and providing some analytically incisive questions that will jump start class discussion. * Take short exams on Ulysses the day they appear on the syllabus. You may drop one of these, if you wish. However, do not skip any exams until the last one, because there are no make ups, and you might miss a test due to illness later on. These tests will be multiple choice. Exams should demonstrate that you have kept up on the reading and have attended to class discussion. * Write two formal papers: first paper, 5-7 pages; the second 10-12 pages—both use 1-2 refereed source/scholarly essays, which can be chosen from those on the syllabus or found through the MLA search via Swem’s website. The papers are the most important aspect of the course, proving that the student has learned thesis development, textual synthesis and analysis, and formal writing.

Grading: Participation/Presentation 10% Q&A on Blackboard 10% Exams 40% Papers 15 and 25% respectively

Required Texts : James Joyce, (any edition) Joyce, Finnegans Wake xeroxes (selected portions) Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (any edition) Joyce, Ulysses: The Corrected Text (must be Gabler edition, for quick quote location) Mark A Wollaeger, editor, James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”: A Casebook . (This doesn’t contain the text of Portrait ; it is a collection of criticism) Derek Attridge, editor, James Joyce’s “Ulysses”: A Casebook. Don Gifford, Ulysses Annotated

Recommended Texts: Joyce, The Critical Writings of James Joyce (on reserve) Joyce, Richard Ellmann, James Joyce (scholarly biography, 1982 version) Morris Beja, James Joyce: A Literary Life (short biography) Harry Blamires, The New Book: A Guide Through Ulysses 3rd Edition. Gifford, Joyce Annotated (for Dubliners and Portrait )

Reserve Texts: I will put Joyce’s Letters on reserve, along with some other useful pieces of criticism and background materials. Swem has 2-3 films related to Joyce, and they’ll also be on reserve.

Schedule:

January 21 First day of class: review of syllabus and expectations Portrait : Discussion of first half of the novel. Parnell, Joyce bio/politics lecture. Suggestions for reading Ulysses

28 Portrait , discussion to end. Recommended reading: Gregory Castle, “Coming of Age in the Age of Empire: Joyce’s Modernist Bildungsroman ” (JJQ 2003), Vicki Mahaffey, “Intentional Error: The Paradox of Editing Joyce’s Ulysses ” (Casebook)

Feb. 4 Ulysses Telemachaid (“Telemachus,” “Nestor”; “Proteus,” and I will discuss (recommended) Cheryl Herr’s, “Art and Life, Nature and Culture, Ulysses ,” 55-81 in James Joyce’s Ulysses : A Casebook , Ed. Derek Attridge ( and New York: Oxford UP, 2004) & (required) T.S. Eliots’s essay on Ulysses.

11 “Proteus” (essay) Henry James, “Stream of Consciousness” (required). Exam #1 ; “Calypso” (Fritz Senn on “righting”)

18 Outline and thesis of paper due in class (on paper)—None accepted late . Essay on Naturalism; The new man (Jewishness in Joyce); Frank Budgen, “Conversations with Joyce (1934)” (Casebook); “Hades” & “Aeolus” essay on Parable of the Plums; , “The Arranger” (Casebook) Exam #2

25 Discussion of “The Dead” from Dubliners. Paper #1 Due in class (5-7 pages) use 1 critical essay

March 4 “Lestrygonians” (essay); Exam #3 ; “Scylla and Charybdis”; Papers Returned

11 Spring Break: No Class

18 “Wandering Rocks”; Early Irish history lecture, up to avis/Yeats.“Sirens” Music.

18 “Cyclops,” Tracey Teets Schwarze, “’Do you call that a man?’ The Discourse of Anxious Masculinity in Ulysses ,” from Joyce and the Victorians. Masculinity in Joyce. Exam #4;”Nausicaa.” Laura Mulvey’s essay, “Pleasure and Danger”; Kimberly Devlin, “The Female Eye: Joyce’s Voyeuristic Narcissists” in New Alliances in Joyce Studies. Feminist takes on Joyce: French Feminism & American (Gilbert & Gubar)

25 Lecture on the Politics of Modernism debates. Marianne DeKoven,”The Politics of Modernism”; “Oxen of the Sun” and filmic representations of Ulysses thus far. Hugh Kenner “Circe” and pre-“Circe” set up. Reading first 30 pages.

April 1 “Circe”; Mark Wollaeger, “Reading Ulysses : Agency, Ideology, and the Novel” (Casebook); “Fritz Senn, “Book of Many Turns” (Casebook)“Circe” on film. Exam #5

8 “Eumaeus” “Ithaca”; Exam #6. Emer Nolan, “ Ulysses , Narrative, History ” (Casebook); Leo Bersani, “Against Ulysses ” (Casebook)

15 “Penelope”; Attridge, “Molly’s flow: the writing of ‘Penelope’ and the question of women’s language,” from Joyce Effects. Ewa Ziarek, “The Female Body, Technology, and Memory in ‘Penelope’” (Casebook); Ulysses wrap up. Harry Staten, “The Decomposing Form of Joyce’s Ulysses” (Casebook)

22 Finnegans Wake zap: “Shem the Penman” and opening, ALP and closing

29 Joyce and pop culture post-texts; a cartoon version of Ulysses

Final Papers (10-12 pages, use 2 scholarly articles) due by noon on date of final exam (we don’t have a final exam, just the paper due). If you would like marginal comments returned to you, in addition to my typed grade evaluation, put two copies in my box. Include envelope and stamps is you want it mailed to you off-campus, please!