ENGL 360 James Joyce (Not offered 1998-99; to be offered 1999-2000)

In this course we will study Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses, and glance at Joyce's dumbfounding final work, Finnegans Wake. Ulysses will absorb our attention for most of the semester; beyond simply following its logic, we will explore the ways in which one might understand it as a paradigm of modernist fiction. Hence readings will include criticism on the novel and theoretical accounts of modernism, as well as excerpts from Richard Ellmann's biography of Joyce. Those who have the time and inclination to read Ulysses on their own, over the summer, will benefit in the fall. Requirements: short written accounts of criticism, one short paper, and one long paper. Prerequisite: English 101.