James Joyce

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This course will offer advanced English majors an in-depth exploration of the fiction of James Joyce with a particular focus on Joyce’s novel Ulysses, considered one of the most (if not the most) important novels written in the twentieth century. Through a carefully scaffolded reading of Joyce’s challenging work, students will explore the technical, aesthetic, and social innovations of modernist fiction and its contemporary and continuing cultural impact; recognize and articulate classical, biographical, and cultural influences on Joyce’s work; and understand how editors, publishers, critics, and readers contribute to the production of seminal works of literature.