ENGL 4700

Reading the Media of Joyce's Ulysses

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

This class offers the opportunity to read James Joyce's epic novel Ulysses in relation to major concepts and methods of media studies, book history, and material text scholarship.  Challenging, multifarious, and often very funny, Ulysses takes place over the course of a single day in the colonized metropolis of Dublin at the dawn of the age of global communications.  Drawing upon the unique resources of Cornell University Library (including its important collection of Joyce manuscripts) and Cornell Cinema, this class will attend to the numerous forms of media Joyce describes and imagines, to the conditions of print publication that made the novel possible (and others that tried to ban it), and to the electric and electronic media art that responded to Ulysses and tried to reproduce its effects.

When Offered Fall or Spring.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, LA-AS)
Satisfies Requirement This course counts toward the 4000-level seminar and post-1800 requirement for English majors.

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