BTAN 2109MA02 James Joyce’s Ulysses 1
Autumn semester, 2015
Seminar, 2hrs, graded
1st-2nd year MA
Wed 10.00-11.40
Rm 109
Instructor: Gula Marianna
Office hours: Tue 14.00-15.00
Wed 13.00-14.00, Rm 108;
E-mail address: [email protected]
Course Description
This two-semester seminar course is exclusively devoted to a chapter by chapter close
reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses with special emphasis on how the text engages with
diverse cultural discourses: colonial and anti-colonial stereotyping, 19th-century
teleological constructions of history, orientalism perpetuated in popular cultural media,
Victorian constructions of femininity and masculinity, various forms of cultural
imperialism, the ideological exploitation of music, the Victorian rhetoric of purity, and so
forth. Our discussions will be aided by ample documentary audio-visual material and will
be further spiced with occasional excursions into translation questions prompted by the
renewed Hungarian translation of Ulysses published in 2012.
Requirements and Grading
1. The class format will be discussion, so it is essential that students read thoroughly the
assigned chapters. The lists of questions uploaded on the institute homepage (under the
instructor’s name) aim to help students’ orientation in the text and give them an idea what
the focal points of the discussion are planned to be. However, students are also requested
to come to class with their own questions in mind. We will integrate those questions into
the discussion.
2. Home essay: an essay of approximately 2500-3000 words, meeting the formal and
academic requirements of a research paper: use of secondary material and scholarly
documentation, conforming to the MLA Style, are required. Plagiarism and academic
dishonesty will be penalised as described in the Academic Handbook of the Institute. The
deadline for submitting the essays is 16 December. NB! Your essay topic and critical
approach do not have to conform to the basic approach of the class. The James Joyce
Checklist available on-line can facilitate your research to a great extent.
3. Class attendance: more than three absences will result in failing the entire course.
4. The final grade will consist in: 1. home essay
2. in-class participation
NB! If you do not have a personal copy of Ulysses, borrow the Gabler edition (containing
useful line references) from the department library.
Schedule
1
16 Sept
2
23 Sept
3
4
30 Sept
7 Oct
Introduction
Telemachus: Ch 1 & Read W.B. Yeats’s “Who goes with Fergus”; A. C.
Swinburne’s “The Triumph of Time” (stanzas 33-38);
Nestor: Ch 2 & Read Milton’s “Lycidas”
Proteus: Ch 3 (optional: (re)-read Shakespeare’s King Lear)
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Calypso: Ch 4 & Re-read Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” & listen to the duet
“La Ci Darem La Mano” from Mozart’s Don Giovanni
21 Oct Lotus-Eaters: Ch 5
28 Oct CONSULTATION WEEK
4 Nov
Hades: Ch 6
11 Nov Aeolus: Ch 7 (optional: Read Canto 5/Inferno and Canto 29/Purgatorio
of Dante’s The Divine Comedy)
18 Nov Lestrygonians: Ch 8
25 Nov Scylla and Charybdis: Ch 9 (Read all of Shakespeare)
2 Dec
Wandering Rocks: Ch 10
9 Dec
Sirens: Ch 11
16 Dec Sirens: Ch 11
14 Oct
Primary texts:
Joyce, James. Ulysses. New York: Vintage, 1986.
Joyce, James. Ulysses. Trans. Szentkuthy Miklós, Gula Marianna, Kappanyos András,
Kiss Gábor Zoltán, Szolláth Dávid. Budapest: Európa, 2012.
Recommended critical reading:
Booker, Joseph. Joyce’s Critics: Transitions in Reading and Culture. Wisconsin: U of
Wisconsin P, 2004.
Attridge, Derek and Marjorie Howes, eds. Semicolonial Joyce. Cambridge: CUP, 2000.
Cheng, Vincent J. Joyce, Race, and Empire. Cambridge: CUP, 1995.
Deane, Seamus. “Masked with Matthew Arnold’s Face: Joyce and Liberalism.” James
Joyce: the Centennial Symposium. Ed. Morris Beja, Philip Herring, Maurice
Harmon, David Norris. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1986.
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford: OUP, 1983.
Fairhall, James. James Joyce and the Question of History. Cambridge: CUP, 1993.
Gibson, Andrew. Joyce’s Revenge: History, Politics and Aesthetics in Ulysses. Oxford:
OUP, 2002.
--- and Len Platt, ed, Joyce, Ireland, Britain. Gainesville: U of Florida P, 2006.
Gifford, Don & Robert J. Seidman. Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce’s
Ulysses. Berkeley: U of California P, 1988.
Herr, Cheryl. Joyce’s Anatomy of Culture. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1986.
Joyce, James. Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing. Ed. Kevin Barry. Oxford:
OUP, 2000.
Kershner, R. Brandon & Carol Loeb Shloss. ReOrienting Joyce. James Joyce Quarterly
35.2 &3 (1998).
Senn, Fritz. Joycean Dislocutions: Essays on Reading as Translation. Ed. John Paul
Riquelme. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1984.
Senn, Fritz. Inductive Scrutinies: Focus on Joyce. Dublin: Lilliput, 1995.
Spoo, Robert. James Joyce and the Language of History: Dedalus’s Nightmare. Oxford:
OUP, 1994.
NB! I will be glad to provide you with some items listed here and not available in the
library as well as with further critical reading if requested.