- James Joyce's Ulysses

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An exploration of the work of one of the defining writers of the early twentieth century, James Joyce. This course focuses in particular on one of the most celebrated and despised novels in the English language, his 1922 novel, Ulysses . Famously difficult, Ulysses  often defeats even the most hardcore readers. The majority of this class focuses on the process of analyzing Joyce's audacious novel and understanding how it became for many the paradigmatic expression of a modernist sensibility. This class may include Joyce's short story collection, Dubliners (1914), and his first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1915).