COML 4831

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COML 4831
Reading Joyce's Ulysses

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A thorough episode-by-episode study of the art and meaning of Joyce's masterwork Ulysses, the most influential book of the twentieth century. We shall place Ulysses in the context of Joyce's canon, Irish culture, and literary modernism. We shall explore the relationship between Ulysses and other experiments in modernism-especially painting and sculpture-and show how Ulysses redefines the concepts of epic, hero, and reader. We shall examine Ulysses as a political novel-specifically, Joyce's response to Yeats and the Celtic Renaissance; Joyce's role in the debate about the direction of Irish politics after Parnell; and Joyce's response to British colonial occupation of Ireland. We shall also consider Ulysses as an urban novel in which Bloom, the marginalized Jew and outsider, is symptomatic of the kind of alienation created by urban culture. No previous experience with Joyce is required.

When Offered Spring.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4700

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15496 COML 4831   SEM 101

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