James Joyce I - Dubliners & A Portrait

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JAMES JOYCE I: DUBLINERS & A PORTRAIT (Autumn 2019, Tue 12:30-14:00, Room 111)

David Vichnar, PhD ([e-mail]) (Office hours: Mon & Wed 3-3.45, Room 219b) 7

Optional M.A. Course

Special Programme in Critical & Cultural Theory; Irish Cultural Studies

Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures

Faculty of Arts

Charles University, Prague

Czech Republic, Europe

The World, The Universe

Oct 7 Dubliners: The Sisters

Secondary Readings: Hélène Cixous, "Joyce: The (r)use of writing" (in Poststructuralist Joyce, eds. Derek Attridge & Daniel Ferrer [Cambridge University Press, 1984] 15-30); Garry M. Leonard, Reading Dubliners Again(Syracuse UP, 1993 [Chapter II] 24-55)

Oct 14 Dubliners: An Encounter, Araby

Secondary Reading: Tracey Teets Schwarze, "Female Complaints: ‘Mad’ Women, Malady, and Resistance in Joyce’s Dublin" (in Cultural Studies of James Joyce, ed. R. Brandon Kershner [Edition Rodopi, 2003] 91-115)

Oct 21 Dubliners: Eveline, Two Gallants

Secondary Reading: Gerald Doherty, Dubliners' Dozen(Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2004 ["Part II: Games Narrators Play"] 57-88)

Nov 4 Dubliners: Boarding House, Counterparts

Secondary Reading: Robert Scholes, “‘Counterparts’ and the Method of Dubliners” (Dubliners – Text & Criticism), 339-47

Nov 11 Dubliners: Clay, A Painful Case

Secondary Reading: Derek Attridge, "Touching 'Clay': Reference and Reality in Dubliners" (in Joyce Effects - On Language, Theory, and History[Cambridge University Press, 2000] 35-51)

Nov 18 Dubliners: A Mother, Grace

Secondary reading: Margot Norris, Suspicious Readings of Dubliners(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003 [especially chapters 13 & 14, "Critical Judgment and Gender Prejudice in "A Mother," "Setting Critical Accounts Aright in "Grace," 185-196; 197-215])

Nov 25 Dubliners: The Dead

Secondary Reading: Richard Ellmann, "The Backgrounds of ‘The Dead’" (in Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. William M. Chace [Prentice-Hall Inc., 1974] 18-28)

Dec 2 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (§1)

Secondary Reading: Hugh Kenner, "A Portraitin Perspective" (in Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. William M. Chace [Prentice-Hall Inc., 1974] 29-49)

Dec 9 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (§2)

Secondary Reading: Derek Attridge, "‘Suck Was a Queer Word’: Language, Sex, and the Remainder in A Portrait" (inJoyce Effects - On Language, Theory, and History[Cambridge University Press, 2000] 59-77)

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

Secondary Reading: Louis Armand, "Spectres of Sovereignty" (in Solicitations, 2nd edition [Litteraria Pragensia, 2008] 468-482)

Jan 6 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man(§5); Conclusion

Secondary Reading: Peter Mahon, "The Sexual Politics of Art" (in James Joyce - A Guide for the Perplexed[Continuum: 2009] 9-40)

JOYCEAN WEBSITES OF POSSIBLE USE

HJS, a refereed journal of James Joyce scholarship (http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz)

JJQ, the James Joyce Quarterly (http://www.utulsa.edu/jjq/)

JJLS, the James Joyce Literary Supplement (http://www.as.miami.edu/english/jjls/)

PRIMARY 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 UP, 2001)

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

FURTHER INFORMATION

Course reader

All of the primary and most of the secondary reading will be available from the faculty Moodle systemfor the students to study as part of their weekly readings. Students are also strongly encouraged to consult the reader while researching for final papers.

Mailing list posting

A mandatory part of your active participation in the course will be a weekly email posting of every student’sindividual critical response concerning the week’s primary reading. The student’s email response (around 300 words)needs to be sent to the lecturer’s email no later than Sunday noon, in order to allow the lecturer some time for its processing before next class. N.B. The departmental zero-tolerance policy on plagiarism will apply to these postings.

Final paper

The final seminar paper shall ideally have the scope between 2,000 and 3,000 words (for a Zápočet), or 3,000 and 4,000 words (for a Zkouška) and will be due by the end of January 2020. Individual deadline extensions are possible, but need to be discussed with the lecturer in reasonable advance. N. B. Students need to discuss their final paper topics, bibliography, and other possible details with the lecturer ahead of the end of the course, i.e. in mid-December.

Credit

Students will be given their credit for presence at minimum 10 sessions (of 12 total) and active participation in at least 10 email postings (50%), as well as their final paper (50%).