Reading Ulysses

Wedi cwblhau'r modiwl dylai'r myfyrwyr fedru:

1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the text of Ulysses and analyse key passages thoroughly.
2. Situate Joyce’s novel in its relevant biographical, social, historical, and/or political contexts.
3. Display a sound understanding of one or more theoretical approaches to reading Ulysses.
4. Write in a scholarly and critically informed manner about Joyce’s novel.

James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) is a brilliant, challenging book, a novel with which any serious student of modern literature will wish to come to grips. This module offers students an opportunity to read, discuss, and study Joyce’s magnum opus in detail, chapter-by-chapter, with expert guidance. It is designed to be accessible for absolute beginners as well as enlightening for readers already familiar with Joyce’s text. A carefully curated, manageable programme of supplementary reading will introduce students to a range of critical and theoretical approaches – including psychoanalysis, feminism, deconstruction, and postcolonialism – that throw light on Ulysses’s dense web of meaning. The module will also situate the novel in its social, historical, and literary-historical contexts. However, the primary focus is upon reading the text, closely and attentively, from beginning to end.

Session 1 – Introduction: Ulysses in Time
Session 2 – Stephen’s Morning (Chapters 1-3)
Session 3 – Bloom: Hello and Goodbye to Life (Chapters 4-6)
Session 4 – Diurnal Dublin (Chapters 7-9)
Session 5 – Across City-Space (Chapters 10-12)
Session 6 – Textual Transmogrifications (Chapters 13-14)
Session 7 – A Whole Other Scene (Chapter 15)
Session 8 – Odds and Ends (Chapters 16-17)
Session 9 – Penelope’s Pleasures (Chapter 18)
Session 10 - Revision and assessment advice

Mae'r modiwl hwn yn cydymffurfio a FfCChC Lefel 7