AJ24088 Joyce: Writing

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
Tue 18:20–19:55 G32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course will consider elements of James Joyce's four best known works: Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Students will be expected to follow the development of his work and some of its implications for the relationship between speaking, reading and writing and the central significance of Joyce's work for a great deal of subsequent literary theory, including that of Lacan, Kristeva and Derrida. Attention will also be paid to Joyce's cultural politics, particularly the nature of his own international socialism in relation to that of other versions in the current period he was writing, notably those of Benjamin and Lukacs.In the course of reading aspects of Joyce's writing, students will be expected to gain insights into the shifting nature of linguistic signification and its possible relation to the commodification of the senses in the modern era.
Syllabus
  • 23rd February Week 1: Introductory Week 2 March 2nd: Dubliners (1) Week 3 March 9th: Dubliners (2) Week 4 March 16th: Portrait of the Artist (1) Week 5 March 23rd: Portrait of the Artist (2) Week 6 March 30th: Ulysses 1-3 (Telemachus, Nestor, Proteus) Week 7 April 6th: NO Lesson: READING WEEK Week 8 April 13th: Ulysses 4-6 (Calypso, Lotus Eaters, Graveyard) Week 9 April 20th: Ulysses 8,10,11 (Lestrygonians, Wandering Rocks, Sirens) Week 10 April 27th: Ulysses 12, 13, (Cyclops, Nausicaa,) Week 11 May 4th: Ulysses 17, 18 (Ithaca, Penelope) Week 12 May 11th: Finnegans Wake: Part 1. Chapter 6 (Radio quiz) Week 13 May 11th: Finnegans Wake: Part 1.7 (Shem the Penman) 1.8. Anna Livia Plurabelle 2.4 -Tristan and Iseult
Literature
  • Tymoczko Maria The Irish Ulysses Berkeley and Los Angeles Univ of California Press 1994
  • MacCabe, Colin James Joyce and The Revolution of the Word London Macmillan 1979
  • ARMAND, Louis. Technē : James Joyce, hypertext & technology. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 2003, 228 s. ISBN 8024603918. info
  • BLAMIRES, Harry. The new Bloomsday book : a guide through Ulysses. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 1996, xvi, 253 s. ISBN 0-415-13858-2. info
  • JOYCE, James. Finnegans wake. Edited by Seamus Deane. London: Penguin Books, 1992, liii, 628. ISBN 0140185569. info
  • JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Edited by Declan Kiberd. London: Penguin Books, 1992, lxxxviii,. ISBN 0-14-018558-5. info
  • JOYCE, James. Dubliners. V. Británie: Penguin, 1983, 223 s. ISBN 0140042229. info
  • ELLMANN, Richard. James Joyce. New and rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982, xviii, 887. ISBN 0195033817. info
  • James Joyce and modern literature. Edited by W. J. McCormack - Alistair Stead. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982, xiii, 222. ISBN 0710090587. info
  • JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Edited by Richard Ellmann. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1968. info
  • JOYCE, James. A portrait of the artist as a young man. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1960, 252 s. info
  • GILBERT, Stuart. James Joyce's Ulysses : a study. London: Faber & Faber, 1930, 416 p. ; 2. info
Teaching methods
Teaching by close reading, group work and class discussion in the form of ninety-minute, weekly seminars.
Assessment methods
By Examination essay (60%) and class contribution (over 40%).
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005.
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