EARLY JOYCE: DUBLINERS & A PORTRAIT

David Vichnar, PhD

Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts

Department of English and American Studies

Intensive Course Programme (Feb 9-12, 2015, Brno)


COURSE SYLLABUS


Day One: Feb 9


1-2 (10.00-11.30)             INTRODUCTION: Dubliners & A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in
Critical Perspective


3-5 (12.30-14.45)             Dubliners: “The Sisters,” “An Encounter,” “Araby”

Day Two: Feb 10


6-7 (10.00-11.30)             Dubliners: “Eveline,” “The Boarding House”


8-10 (12.30-14.45)           Dubliners: “Counterparts,” “Clay,” “A Painful Case”


Day Three: Feb 11


11-12 (10.00-11.30)         Dubliners: “Grace,” “The Dead”

13-15 (12.30-14.45)         A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: (§1-2)

Day Four: Feb 12


16-17 (10.00-11.30)         A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (§3-4)

18-20 (12.30-14.45)         A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (§5)

CONCLUDING REMARKS

Course description

The intensive course aims at a critical close reading of James Joyce’s two early works, Dubliners
(1914) and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Students are expected to have read the two
books prior to the start of the seminar. The two editions to be worked with (plus a work of
annotative criticism) are specified below – and will be accessible in an electronic format well
ahead of the commencement of the course. Everyone welcome.


Course readings

James Joyce, Dubliners: Text and Criticism; Revised Edition, eds. Robert Scholes, A. Walton Litz
(Penguin Books, 1996)
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, ed. Jeri Johnson (Oxford University Press,
2001)

Don Gifford, Joyce Annotated: Notes for Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(University of California Press, 1982)