ENGLISH 680: Irish Studies

   ENGLISH 680
   Irish Studies: Yeats/Joyce.
   DR. JOLANTA W. WAWRZYCKA

TEXTBOOKS (see Appendix 1 & 2 below):

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W. B. Yeats. Macliammoir, Michael (Literary Lives Series).

James Joyce. Chester Anderson (Literary Lives Series).

James Joyce: A Literary Life. Morris Beja.
James Joyce's Ulysses. Stuart Gilbert.

Poetry of W. B. Yeats (Course Pack)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
Reading Logs for Literary Salons; Term Papers and Tests/Exams.
McConnel Library; Literary Sites .

COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND CLASS POLICIES:

CRITICAL READING LOGS PORTFOLIO: (30%) Our "literary salon" discussions will start with your logs; to jog your mind, consider Reading Logs for guidance, but certainly expand on my suggestions. Also, (since most of you teach) consult the OWL for excellent tips on writing about fiction, close reading, etc.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: (30%) throughout the semester, you will work with books to be selected from Appendix 1 & 2. Your task will be to write an overview of each book's content. Hopefully, your book choices will coincide with class readings and help you narrow down you final essay topic.
FINAL ESSAY: (40%) a focused, analytic/interpretive essay on a selected aspect of Yeats's and/or Joyce’s writing (10-15 pages). For instance, you may work on religious imagery or on Catholicism in Joyce's works, or on aspects of Künstlerroman in A Portrait and Ulysses; on Yeats’s politics; on issues of gender, sexuality and/or sexual politics; on Joyce’s (Yeats's) modernism (themes, style, voice); on Joyce's philosophy of art as expounded in A Portrait and carried over to Ulysses, etc. (More suggestions on a separate handout). Your paper should gain from critical literature you will cover in Annotated Bibliography.
ATTENDANCE POLICY: only 2 absences will be excused. Each additional one will come at a price of - 4 points.

By accepting admission to RU, each student makes a commitment to understand, support and abide by the University Honor Code without compromise or exception. This class will be conducted in strict observance of the Honor Code.

WEEK 1: Setting the Course Requirements and Course Context;
JAN 14

Introduction: syllabus and course content; class and course policies.
Lecture: Different Irelands;

WEEK 2:
JAN 21 NO CLASS

WEEK 3: Yeats/Joyce
JAN 28

Lecture on Yeats and Joyce; Cultural Context for two different literary life-projects.

Annotated Bibliography I & II: two books: one from section 1 and one from section 7.

WEEK 4:
FEB 4 NO CLASS: Please read Yeats' Poems and Joyce's Portrait

WEEK 5: Poetry of W. B. Yeats in Context
FEB 11

Irish Revival: the players; the goals.

Literary Salon: the Poetry of W. B. Yeats. Log 1

Annotated Bibliography III & IV (two Yeats books).

WEEK 6: A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
FEB 18

Joyce Log 1: Portrait (Part 1): Why the fairy-tale opening? Identify voice(s); point of view. Describe the kinds of initiations Stephen undergoes in Clongowes Wood College.
(Part 2) Theme of initiation continued: identify and discuss its elements. Identify--and elaborate on--voices "heard" by Stephen.
(Part 3) Guilt: why? Return to Church. Elements of mortification (enumerate and analyze them). Voices again: discuss them.
(Part 4) Stephen’s loss of faith: why? What is his new sense of direction?
(Part 5) Stephen's aesthetic theory--study the terms carefully; learn them by heart! Artistic creed: what is Stephen's goal?

WEEK 7: Transition; Beja; Introducing Ulysses
FEB 25

Discussion of Beja's James Joyce: A Literary Life and Anderson James Joyce. Joyce Log 2.
Ulysses: Background and Homeric parallels.

WEEK 8: Ulysses
MARCH 3

Ulysses: meet Stephen again: Telemachus, Nestor, Proteus. Joyce Log 3

Annotated Bibliography

V (suggestions: read critical discussion of the assigned chapters in Ellmann, Devlin/Reizbaum, Gifford/Seidman, Gilbert, etc).

WEEK 9
MARCH 10 Spring Break

WEEK 10: Ulysses
MARCH 17

Ulysses: meet Leopold Bloom -- Calypso, Lotus Eaters. Joyce Log 4

Ulysses: Hades, Aeolus. Joyce Log 5

Annotated Bibliography VI (suggestions: read critical discussion of the assigned chapters in Ellmann, Devlin/Reizbaum, Gifford/Seidman, Gilbert, etc).

WEEK 11: Ulysses
MARCH 24

Ulysses: Lestrygonians, Scylla and Charybdis, Wandering Rocks, Joyce Log 6

Annotated Bibliography VII (suggestions: read critical discussion of the assigned chapters in Ellmann, Devlin/Reizbaum, Gifford/Seidman, Gilbert, etc).

WEEK 12: Ulysses
MARCH 31

Ulysses: Sirens, Cyclops, Nausicaa. Joyce Log 7

Annotated Bibliography

WEEK 13: Ulysses
APR 7

Ulysses: Oxen of the Sun [Circe] Eumeus. Joyce Log 8

Annotated Bibliography VIII (suggestions: read critical discussion of the assigned chapters in Ellmann, Devlin/Reizbaum, Gifford/Seidman, Gilbert, etc).

WEEK 14: Ulysses
APR 14

Ulysses: Ithaca, Penelope. Joyce Log 9
Final paper round-table workshop.

WEEK 15:
APR 21

Term Paper workshop. Draft presentations. Term paper and the Joyce Log Portfolio due after class.

FINAL EXAM: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30
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APPENDIX 1: Joyce book suggestions for your Annotated Bibliography

Primary texts by James Joyce (to be discussed/referred to in this course):

Joyce, James. Dubliners. Scholes, Robert & A. Walton Litz, eds. Viking Critical Ed, 1969.
---. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Anderson, Chester G. ed. Viking Critical Ed, 1968.

---. The Critical Writings of James Joyce. Mason, Ellsworth and Richard Ellmann, eds. 1959.

---. James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writings. Kevin Barry, ed. Oxford, 2000.
---. Ulysses Vintage, 1961.

---. Letters of James Joyce. Stuart Gilbert, ed. v. 1, 1957; Richard Ellmann, v.. II & III, 1966.
---. Selected Letters. Richard Ellmann, ed. Faber and Faber, 1966.
---. Stephen Hero. New Directions, 1964.

1. Sample Selection of Biographical Studies:

Anderson, Chester. James Joyce. Thames and Huston, 1967.
Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. U of Nebraska, 1991.
Beja, Murray. James Joyce: A Literary Life. Ohio State UP, 1992.
Benstock, Bernard. James Joyce. Ungar Publishing Co., 1985.
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford, 1984.
Gilbert, Stuart. Reflections on James Joyce. Stuart Gilbert’s Paris Journal. U of Texas P, 1993.
Gorman, Herbert. James Joyce. Farrar and Rinehart, 1939.
Joyce, Stanislaus. The Complete Dublin Diary of Stanislaus Joyce. Ed. George Healy. Cornell UP, 1971.
---. My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years. Ed. Richard Ellmann. Viking, 1958.
Kime-Scott, Bonnie. James Joyce. Humanities Press International, 1987.
Maddox, Brenda. Nora Joyce: The Real Life of Molly Bloom. Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
Potts, Willard, ed. Portraits of the Artist in Exile. Recollections of James Joyce by Europeans. U of Washington P, 1979.
Power, Arthur. Conversations with James Joyce. Barnes & Noble, 1974.

O'Connor, Ulick. The Joyce We Knew. Memoirs of Joyce. Brandon, 2004.

2. Sample Selection of General Guides and Socio-Cultural Studies:

Attridge, Derek, ed. The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce. Cambridge UP, 1990.
Attridge, Derek and Daniel Ferrer, eds. Post-Structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French. Cambridge UP, 1984.
Beja, Morris and Ellen Carol Jones. Twenty-First Joyce. UP of Florida, 2004.
Benstock, Shari and Bernard, eds. Who's He When He's at Home: A James Joyce Directory . U of Illinois P, 1980.
Fragnoli, Nicholas and Michael Gillespie. James Joyce A-Z. Oxford, 1995.
Henke, Suzette A. James Joyce and the Politics of Desire. New York: Routledge, 1990.
Henke, Suzette and Elaine Unkeless, eds. Women in Joyce. U of Illinois P, 1982.
Herr, Cheryl. Joyce’s Anatomy of Culture. U of Illinois, 1986.
Kenner, Hugh. Joyce's Voices. U of California P, 1978.
Kimball, Jean. Odyssey of Psyche: Jungian Patterns in Joyce's Ulysses. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997.
---. Joyce and the Early Freudians. UP of Florida, 2003.
Kershner, R. B. Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Culture. U of North Carolina P, 1989.Lernout, Geert and Wim van Mierlo, eds. The Reception of James Joyce in Europe. 2 vols. London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004.
Lowe-Evans, Mary. Crimes Against Fecundity: Joyce and Population Control. Syracuse UP, 1989.
Manganiello, Dominic. Joyce's Politics. Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd, 1980.
Senn, Fritz. Joyce's Dislocutions. Essays on Reading as Translation. J. P. Riquelme, ed. Johns Hopkins UP, 1984.
---. Inductive Scrutinies. Christine O'Neill, ed. The Lilliput Press, 1995.
Stubbings, Diana. Anglo-Irish Modernity and the Maternal. Palagrave, 2000.
Tindall, William York. A Reader’s Guide to James Joyce. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1981.
Wawrzycka, Jolanta and Marlena Corcoran, eds. Gender in Joyce. U of Florida P, 1998.

3. Sample Selection for Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Anderson, Chester. James Joyce and his World. Thames and Hudson, 1967.
Baker, James R., and Thomas F. Staley, eds. James Joyce's Dubliners: A Critical Handbook. Wadsworth, 1969.
Bolt, Sydney. A Preface to James Joyce. Longman, 1992.
Bosinelli, Rosa Maria and Harold F. Mosher, eds. Re-Joycing; New Readings of Dubliners. U of Kentucky P, 1998.
Brandabur, Edward. A “scrupulous meanness; a Study of Joyce's Early Work. U of Illinois P, 1971.
Gifford, Don. Joyce Annotated: Notes for Dubliners and A Portrait. U of California P, 1982.
Ingersol, Earl G. Engendered Trope in Joyce’s Dubliners. SIU P, 1996.
Jackson, John and Bernard McGinley. James Joyce's Dubliners. St. Martin's P, 1993.
Joyce, Stanislaus. My Brother's Keeper; James Joyce's Early Years. Ed. Richard Ellmann. Viking, 1958.
Leonard, Gary. Reading Dubliners Again: a Lacanian Perspective. Syracuse UP, 1993.
Pierce, David. James Joyce's Ireland. Yale UP, 1992.
Scholes, Robert, and Richard M. Kain. The Workshop of Daedalus . Northwestern UP, 1965.
Scott, Bonnie K. Joyce and Feminism. Indiana UP, 1984.
Schwartz, Daniel R., ed. James Joyce’s “The Dead”. St. Martin's P, 1994.
Thornton, Weldon. The Antimodernism of Joyce’s Portrait. Syracuse UP, 1994.

4. Sample Selection for Ulysses

Blamires, Harry. The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses. Routledge, 1988.
Budgen, Frank. James Joyce and the Making of 'Ulysses', and Other Writings. Oxford UP, 1972.
Devlin, Kimberly and Marilyn Reizbaum. Ulysses: En-Gendered Perspectives. U of S. Carolina P, 1999.
Gifford, Don, with Robert J. Seidman. Ulysses Annotated.. Revised and expanded, U of California P, 1988.
Gilbert, Stuart. James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study. Faber and Faber, 1930. Index. Rev. ed. Vintage 1958.
Hart, Clive and David Hayman, eds. James Joyce's Ulysses: Critical Essays. U of California P, 1974.
Kershner, R. B. Joyce, Bakhtin and Popular Literature. U of N. Carolina P, 1989.
Lawrence, Karen. The Odyssey of Style in Ulysses , Princeton UP, 1981.
Norris, Margot. A Companion to James Joyce’s Ulysses. Bedford, 1998.
Scott, Bonnie Kim, Joyce and Feminism, Brighton, Harvester, 1984.
Thornton, Weldon. Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List. U of N. Carolina P, 1968.
Tymoczko, Maria. The Irish Ulysses. U of California P, 1994.

5. Journals (since none are carried by the RU library; you may access them at my home):

James Joyce Quarterly; James Joyce Literary Supplement; A James Joyce Broadsheet; Joyce Studies Annual; James Joyce Newestlatter.

6. Sample Selection of Books on Ireland and Dublin:

Bidwell, Bruce. The Joycean Way: A Topographic Guide to Dubliners and A Portrait. Wolfhound, 1981.
Cato, Bob. Joyce Images. Greg Vitiello, ed.. Norton, 1994.
Deane, Seamus. A Short History of Irish Literature. London: Huchinson, 1986.
McCarthy, Jack. Joyce's Dublin: A Walking Guide to Ulysses. Wolfhound P, 1986.
O'Brien, Joseph V. “Dear Dirty Dublin:” A City in Distress, 1899-1916. U of California P, 1982.
O'Dwyer, Frederick. Lost Dublin. Gill and Macmillan, 1981.
Pearl, Cyril. Dublin in Bloomtime: The City James Joyce Knew. Viking, 1969.
Pierce, David. James Joyce's Ireland. Yale UP, 1992.
Tindall, William York. The Joyce Country. Rev. ed. Schocken, 1972.
Watson, G.J.B. Irish Identity and the Literary Revival, London: Croom Helm, 1979.
(in addition to numerous books on Irish history, mythology, folklore, etc)

APPENDIX 2: Yeats book suggestions for your Annotated Bibliography

7. Sample Selection of Biographical Studies:

Alldritt, Keith. W. B. Yeats: The Man and the Milieu. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1997
Coote, Stephen. W. B. Yeats: A Life. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1997
Ellmann, Richard. Yeats: The Man and the Masks. London: Macmillan, 1948
Foster, R. F. W. B. Yeats: A Life. I. The Apprentice Mage. Oxford UP, 1997
_______. W. B. Yeats: A Life. II. The Arch-Poet. Oxford UP, 2003
Jeffares, A. Norman. W. B. Yeats: A New Biography. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989
_______. W. B. Yeats: Man and Poet. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962
MacLiammóir, Micheál, and Boland, Eavan. W. B. Yeats. London: Thames & Hudson, 1971
Maddox, Brenda. Yeats’s Ghosts. The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats. Harper Collins, 1999
Murphy, William M. The Yeats Family and the Pollexfens of Sligo. Dublin: Dolmen, 1971
Saddlemyer, Ann. Becoming George. The Life of Mrs. W. B. Yeats. Oxford UP, 2002
Tuohy, Frank. Yeats. London: Macmillan, 1976

8. Sample Selection of Critical Studies

Adams, Hazard. The Book of Yeats's Poems. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1991.
Bradford, Curtis. Yeats at Work. Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1965.
Donoghue, Denis. Yeats. London: Fontana, 1971.
Gordon, D. J., ed. W. B. Yeats: Images of a Poet. Manchester: University of Manchester, 1961.
Gorski, William T. Yeats and Alchemy. Albany: State University of New York, 1996.
Harper, George M., ed. Yeats and the Occult. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975.
Harper, Margaret Mills. Wisdom of the Two. The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats. Oxford UP, 2006
Jeffares, A. Norman. W. B. Yeats: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977.
Meir, Colin. The Ballads and Songs of W. B. Yeats: The Anglo-Irish Heritage in Subject and Style. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1974.
Murphy, William M. Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
O'Donnell, William H. A Guide to the Prose Fiction of W. B. Yeats. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1983.
Skelton, Robin, and Saddlemyer, Ann, eds. The World of W. B. Yeats. Seattle: University of Washington, Press (1965) 1967.
Thuente, Mary Helen. W. B. Yeats and Irish Folklore. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1980.
Torchiana, Donald T. W. B. Yeats & Georgian Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966.
Unterecker, John. A Reader's Guide to W. B. Yeats. London: Thames & Hudson, 1967.
Vendler, Helen. Our Secret Discipline. Teats and Lyric Form. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2007
Watanabe, Nancy Ann. Beloved Image: The Drama of W. B. Yeats, 1865-1939. Lanham and London: UP of America, 1995. MLA 1996 Book Award
Whitaker, Thomas R. Swan and Shadow: Yeats's Dialogue with History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1964.
Wilson, F. A. C. W. B. Yeats and Tradition. New York: Macmillan, 1958; London: Gollancz, 1960.