ENGLISH 470: James Joyce

ENGLISH 470: W. B. Yeats; James Joyce; Seamus Heaney

Dr. Jolanta W. Wawrzycka
Office: Russell 106.
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jolanta@radford.edu

TEXTS & RESOURCES:

Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose. James Pethica, ed. Norton 2000.
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. J.P. Riquelme, ed. Norton 2007.
Seamus Heaney, Open Ground, FSG 1998.
Poetry of William Butler Yeats (at California State University, Northridge) E-text of 382 poems.
An electronic version of The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats--individual volumes (at CSUN)
An electronic version of The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats--alphabetically by title (at CSUN)
Digital Portfolio: Packaging Research for Multimedia Presentations
Reading Logs For Literary Salons; Term Papers, and Tests/Exams.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND CLASS POLICIES:

PRESENTATION: (20%) you will prepare a PowerPoint presentation on a selected subject contemporaneous with Joyce’s life and work (see the bottom of syllabus). As you work on your presentation and log, pay special attention to the presence of–or allusions to—these historical concepts in works of Yeats/Joyce, as well as to the names of key historical player. For presentation requirements, please consult the Digital Portfolio.
YEATS LOG PORTFOLIO (20%) See Reading Logs For Literary Salons.
JOYCE LOG PORTFOLIO (20%)
HEANEY LOG PORTFOLIO (10%)
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY (10%) (details will follow).
FINAL ESSAY has to be grounded in course texts and critical literature (see Appendix), and developed from your reading logs (20%).
ATTENDANCE POLICY: only 2 absences will be excused. Each additional one will come at a price of - 5 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.

WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS:

WEEK 1: 9/1 Setting the Course Requirements

Introduction: syllabus and course content; class and course policies.

Electronic classroom; presentations.

WEEK 2: 9/8 Setting the Course Context; Yeats' Ireland.

Multimedia Lecture: Life, Work, and Legacy of W. B. Yeats

WEEK 3: 9/15 W. B. YEATS

Poetry of W. B. Yeats: selections from Crossways, The Rose, The Wind Among the Reeds, In the Seven Woods, The Green Helmet and Other Poems, and Responsibilities. Log 1: Yeats (in progress).

WEEK 4: 9/22 W. B. YEATS

Poetry of W. B. Yeats: selections from The Wild Swans at Coole, Michael Robartes and the Dancer, The Tower, The Winding Stair and Other Poems, and from new & last poems. Log 1: Yeats (in progress).

WEEK 5: 9/29 W. B. YEATS

Plays of W. B. Yeats: Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902) and At the Hawk's Well (1917). Selections of Yeats's prose; selections of criticism by Yeats's contemporaries and recent critical/biographical commentaries. Log 1: Yeats is due.

WEEK 6: 10/16 JAMES JOYCE.

Multimedia Lecture: Life, Work, and Legacy of James Joyce.

Discussion of "The Dead." Log 2: Joyce's The Dead is due after class.

Start reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

WEEK 7: 10/13 JAMES JOYCE.

A Portrait (Part 1): Why the fairy-tale opening? Identify voice(s); point of view. Kinds of initiation in Clongowes.

A Portrait (Part 2) Theme of initiation continued: identify and discuss its elements. Identify--and elaborate on--voices "heard" by Stephen. Log 3: Joyce's A Portrait (in progress).

WEEK 8: 10/20 JAMES JOYCE.

A Portrait (Part 3) Guilt: why? Return to Church. Elements of mortification (enumerate and analyze them). Voices again: discuss them.

A Portrait (Part 4) Stephen’s loss of faith: why? What is his new sense of direction?

A Portrait (Part 5) Stephen's aesthetic theory--study the terms carefully & be prepared to explain them. Log 3: Joyce's A Portrait is due.

WEEK 9: 10/27 PRESENTATIONS:

Ancient Irish history;

Irish Mythology;

Monastic Sites and Early Christianity;

Potato Famine: Political Background; Causes; Effects.

WEEK 10: 11/3 PRESENTATIONS:

The Irish Revival: Lady Gregory;

The Irish Revival: J. M. Synge;

Seamus Heaney.

WEEK 11: 11/10 SEAMUS HEANEY

Poetry of Seamus Heaney: selections from Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), Stations (1975), and North (1975). Log 4: Heaney (in progress).

WEEK 12: 11/17 SEAMUS HEANEY

Poetry of Seamus Heaney: selections from Field Work (1979), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), Seeing Things (1991) and Spirit Level (1996).

Nobel Lecture. Log 4: Heaney is due

WEEK 13: Thanksgiving Break

WEEK 14: 12/1 Final Paper Workshop.

Have the first 6-8 pages of your draft with you in class; we will work thesis statement.

WEEK 15: 12/8 Final Paper; Overview

Final paper is due. Preparation for the final activity.

FINAL EXAM: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17

Appendix: Selected Bibliography:

Sample Selection of Biographical Studies on James Joyce:

Beach, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. U of Nebraska, 1991.
Beja, Murray. James Joyce: A Literary Life. Ohio State UP, 1992.
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.
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.

Sample Selection of Biographical Studies on W. B. Yeats:

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.
Sample Selection of Critical Studies on 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.

Sample Selection of Critical Studies on Yeats:

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.

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.

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