ENGL 90527 - Ulysses, Cultural Studies, and Postcolonialism

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

The course is organized around a semester long reading of James Joyce's Ulysses. Our first objective will be to read and comprehend and enjoy this work collectively; and all participants will be required, formally and informally,to contribute to our reading. Using Ulysses as our principal referent point, we will then be working through a number of key texts in the following areas: Joyce criticism, cultural studies and postcolonialism. This is intended to be an introduction to these bodies of work, not an exhaustive survey or even representative sampling. We will, accordingly, be reading these texts with constant reference to the ways in which they illuminate Ulysses and, beyond it, the colonial and postcolonial culture of Ireland. Towards the end of semester we will concentrate on discussing both the value of the different kinds of approaches we have encountered and tried to deploy and the ways in which methods we have used here might be applicable in other domains of cultural and literary studies. Since this is a research seminar, students will be expected to follow up their readings and deepen their knowledge of at least one of the domains of secondary material we have addressed (e.g., psychoanalysis, popular culture, postcolonialism etc.) and write a paper using this material to read a chapter or a thematic concern of Ulysses.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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