ENGLISH 470: 
   Author in Context: James Joyce
   DR. JOLANTA W. WAWRZYCKA

                     TEXTBOOKS:
 Dubliners

 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man          
 Ulysses         

James Joyce: A Literary Life. Morris Beja
James Joyce's Ulysses. Stuart Gilbert.  
New Readings of Dubliners. Bosinelli/Moser, eds.
Reading Logs for Literary Salons; Term Papers and Tests/Exams.
 McConnel Library; Literary Sites;  Web search engines.

COURSE  REQUIREMENTS AND CLASS POLICIES:

CRITICAL READING LOGS PORTFOLIO:  (30%) Our "literary salon" discussions will start with your logs--please, prepare them for each class. See my Reading Logs for guidance, but feel free to expand on my suggestions. Also, consult the OWL for excellent tips on writing about fiction, close reading, etc.
PARTICIPATION & SHARING YOUR LOG INSIGHTS: (10%) there can be no "literary salon" without discussions -- be prepared to talk.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: (30%) choose at least three books from Sample Selections 2  through 4 (that's 12 books) and write up an overview of the content -- a summary paragraph on each chapter. You are working towards your final essay so please be diligent. Consult Appendix at the bottom of this syllabus.
FINAL ESSAY:  (30%) a focused, analytic/interpretive essay on a selected aspect of 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 Joyce’s politics; on issues of gender, sexuality and/or sexual politics; on Joyce’s modernism (themes, style, voice); on his philosophy of art as expounded in A Portrait and carried over to Ulysses, etc. (More suggestions will come on a separate handout). Your paper will be grounded in 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. 

WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS:

WEEK 1:  Setting the Course Requirements
AUG 20

bullet Introduction: syllabus and course content; class and course policies.
bullet Start reading Dubliners and begin your log portfolio. In addition to studying critical essays in the Joyce volume, consider also the essays in  Bosinelli/Moser. (on reserve at McConnell Library).  

WEEK 2: Setting the Course Context; Dubliners.
AUG 27

bullet Lecture: Different Irelands; James Joyce's Early Years..
bullet Background on Dubliners.
bullet Discussion of  "The Sisters," "An Encounter," "Araby,"  "Eveline," "After the Race," "The Two Gallants," "The Boarding House," "A Little Cloud," "Counterparts," Prepare Joyce Log 1A. .You will be able to add notes in class.

WEEK 3: Dubliners
SEP 3

bullet  Discussion of  "Clay," "A Painful Case," "Ivy Day in the Committee Room," "A Mother," "Grace, " The Dead." Prepare a Joyce Log 1B and add class notes.
bullet Background on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

WEEK 4: A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
SEP 10

bullet Joyce Log 2A: 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. 
bullet (Part 2) Theme of initiation continued: identify and discuss its elements. Identify--and elaborate on--voices "heard" by Stephen.
bullet (Part 3) Guilt: why? Return to Church. Elements of mortification (enumerate and analyze them). Voices again: discuss them.

WEEK 5: A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
SEP 17

bullet Joyce Log 2B: Portrait (Part 4) Stephen’s loss of faith: why? What is his new sense of direction? 

WEEK 6: A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
SEP 24

bullet Joyce Log 2B: Portrait (Part 5) Stephen's aesthetic theory--study the terms carefully; learn them by heart! Artistic creed: what is Stephen's goal?

WEEK 7: Beja; Bibliography; Ulysses
OCT 1

bullet Read Beja's James Joyce: A Literary Life. Joyce Log 3.
bullet Bibliography Workshop: you cannot miss this class.
bullet Ulysses: Background and Homeric parallels.

WEEK 8: Ulysses
OCT 8

bullet Joyce Log 4 -- Ulysses: meet Stephen again: Telemachus, Nestor, Proteus. .
bullet [You are working on Annotated Bibliography sample for Oct 8].

WEEK 9  Ulysses
OCT 15

bullet Joyce Log 5 -- Ulysses: meet Leopold Bloom -- Calypso, Lotus Eaters, Hades.
bullet Sample of your Annotated Bibliography is due if you wish to have it checked/critiqued.

WEEK 10: Ulysses
OCT 22

bullet Joyce Log 6 -- Ulysses: Aeolus, Lestrygonians, Scylla and Charybdis.
bullet [You are working on Annotated Bibliography due Nov 12].

WEEK 11: Ulysses
OCT 29
bullet Joyce Log 7 -- Ulysses: Wandering Rocks, Sirens,Cyclops,
bullet [You are working on Annotated Bibliography due Nov 12].

WEEK 12:  Ulysses
NOV 5

bullet Joyce Log 8 -- Ulysses: , Nausicaa, Oxen of the Sun;
bullet [You are working on Annotated Bibliography due Nov 12].

WEEK 13: Ulysses
NOV 12

bullet Joyce Log 9 -- Ulysses: [Circe] Eumeus, Ithaca.
bullet [You are working on Annotated Bibliography due Nov 12].

WEEK 14: THANKSGIVING BREAK

WEEK 15:
NOV 29

bullet Joyce Log 10 -- Ulysses: Penelope.
bullet Annotated Bibliography is due.
bullet Final paper workshop / round-table: your “working” thesis statement and your focus on in your final paper.  II will help you clarify your thesis statement and your critical tool(s). We will also discuss how to integrate diverse research material and your own ideas into a coherent "reading." You cannot miss this class

WEEK 16:  
DEC 3

bullet Paper workshop. Draft presentations. You cannot miss this class. Term paper and the Joyce Log Portfolio due after class.

FINAL EXAM: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12
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APPENDIX: Book suggestions for your Annotated Bibliography:

 

bullet 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.

 

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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.
 

bullet 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.

bullet 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.

bullet 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.

bullet 5. Journals (since none are carried by the RU library; you may request access to my private collection):

 

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

 

bullet 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.