ENGLISH 825.001 SEMINAR IN MAJOR FIGURES: JAMES JOYCE Spring 2018 T 4:00-6:40 CRT 468 Professor José Lanters Office: CRT 489 Email: Course Description James Joyce (1882-1941), one of the major representatives of literary Modernism, famously claimed that his works would keep the critics busy for a hundred years. Indeed, since the 1960s, what has come to be known as the has outstripped the ‘Joyce industry’ ‘Shakespeare industry’ and generated a wealth of critical and theoretical readings of that reveal the Joyce’s oeuvre multi-faceted nature of his accomplishment. In this course, we will focus on Dubliners, A and and explore the nature and history of critical Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, responses to these works. Reading List James Joyce, ed. Margot Norris (Norton Critical Edition) Dubliners, James Joyce, ed. John Paul Riquelme (Norton Critical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Edition) James Joyce, (Vintage, Gabler edition) Ulysses Joseph Brooker, (U of Wisconsin Press) Critics: Transitions in Reading Joyce’s Don Gifford, (U of California Press) Ulysses Annotated Assessment 2 research papers (one on the early works; one on (35% each) Ulysses) class participation (10%) class presentation (20%)
ENGLISH 825.001 SEMINAR IN MAJOR FIGURES: JAMES JOYCE Spring 2018 T 4:00-6:40 CRT 468 Professor José Lanters Office: CRT 489 Email: Course Description James Joyce (1882-1941), one of the major representatives of literary Modernism, famously claimed that his works would keep the critics busy for a hundred years. Indeed, since the 1960s, what has come to be known as the ‘Joyce industry’ has outstripped the ‘Shakespeare industry’ and generated a wealth of critical and theoretical readings of Joyce’s oeuvre that reveal the multi-faceted nature of his accomplishment. In this course, we will focus on Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses, and explore the nature and history of critical responses to these works. Reading List James Joyce, Dubliners, ed. Margot Norris (Norton Critical Edition) James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ed. John Paul Riquelme (Norton Critical Edition) James Joyce, Ulysses (Vintage, Gabler edition) Joseph Brooker, Joyce’s Critics: Transitions in Reading (U of Wisconsin Press) Don Gifford, Ulysses Annotated (U of California Press) Assessment 2 research papers (one on the early works; one on Ulysses) (35% each) class participation (10%) class presentation (20%)
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