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99479 |
HIST 2551 Joyce’s Ulysses, Modernity, and
Nationalism |
Gregory Moynahan |
M . W . . |
12:00 -1:20 pm |
RKC 200 |
HIST |
Cross-listied:
Irish & Celtic Studies; STS; Victorian Studies Although it concerns only the day of June 16th, 1904,
each chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses is famously written in a radically different
historical and literary style. In this
course, we will complement Joyce’s stylistic innovation by using contemporary
documents (newspaper accounts, advertising, folksongs, etc.) and historical
texts (epic, medieval chronicle,
heroic, modern ironic) to unfold the historical context and resonance of each
of Joyce’s chapters. The course as a
whole will then question how these various means of casting the reader in time
and history illuminate the modernism and political reality of Dublin in 1904, and
particularly the ethnic, religious, and social tensions that led Joyce to a
life of exile from the Ireland of his text.
The goal will be both a survey of historical methodologies and an
historical introduction to the problems of modernism and nationalism using this
highly documented example. Key issues
addressed will be the function of historical and mythical time in everyday
life, Joyce’s narrative as an anti-nationalist (yet, somehow, nationalist)
epic, the role of popular scientific writing and technology in the creation of
reality, the politics of gender and sexuality in the fin-de-siècle, the
function of terrorism in politics, and the effect of politics and mass media on
“personal” experience. Required
Texts: James Lydon, The Making of Ireland: A History ; James Joyce, Hans Walter
Gabler (Editor), Ulysse; Stuart Gilbert, James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study; James Joyce, A Portrait of
the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin)
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99058 |
LIT 2650 Irish Fiction |
Benjamin La Farge |
M . W . . |
10:30 - 11:50 am |
OLIN 309 |
ELIT |
Cross-listed:
Irish & Celtic Studies Irish
fiction of the modern period--the stories, novels, and plays of the past 300
years--has been divided between two traditions: the Anglo-Irish tradition of
writers who were English by descent but deeply identified with Ireland; and the
Catholic tradition of modern Ireland. From the first, we will read Jonathan
Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Maria
Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, and
Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Dorian Gray,
together with plays by J.M. Synge, W.B. Yeats, and Lady Gregory, plus
additional fiction by Elizabeth Bowen, William Trevor, et al. From the second,
we will read Joyce's Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds,
and additional fiction by Frank O'Connor, Liam O'Flaherty and many others. As
background we will also read a brief history of Ireland during this period.