British Literature Survey
Path 2: James Joyce Group

 

Student-Researched Reference Topics

Reading Foci

  • free indirect discourse
  • the questionable validity of a given narrator's perspective and opinions
  • various characters' attitudes towards Irish culture and society
  • Stephen Dedalus' fascination with words (even in childhood)
  • the experience of isolation: boon or curse?
  • similarities in theme and tone of Joyce's work and that of P. B. Shelley
  • overt and implied commentaries on the Catholic Church
Week One: Jan 12-14 Dubliners (1914): "The Sisters," "An Encounter," "Araby"
Week Two: Jan 15-21 Dubliners (1914): "Eveline," "After the Race," "Two Gallants,"
"The Boarding House"
Week Three: Jan 22-28 Dubliners (1914): "A Little Cloud," "Counterparts," "Clay,"
"A Painful Case"

Week Four: Jan 29-Feb 4

 Dubliners (1914): "Ivy Day in the Committee Room," "A Mother," "Grace"

Week Five: Feb 5-11

 Dubliners (1914): "The Dead"
Week Six: Feb 12-18 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916): chps 1-2
Week Seven: Feb 19-25 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916): chp 3
Week Eight: Feb 26-Mar 4 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916): chp 4
Week Nine: Mar 5-11 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916): chp 5
Spring Break
Week Ten: Mar 19-25 Ulysses (1922): chps 1-2
Week Eleven: Mar 26-Apr 1 Ulysses (1922): chp 3
Week Twelve: Apr 2-8 Ulysses (1922): chp 4-5
Week Thirteen: Apr 9-15 Ulysses (1922): chps 6-7
Week Fourteen: Apr 16-22

Ulysses (1922): Book II, chps 8-9
Week Fifteen: Apr 23-29 Ulysses (1922): Book II, chps 10-11


Paul Marchbanks
marchban@email.unc.edu