James Joyce, Ulysses

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This module will provide final year students of English with the opportunity to read, study and write about one of the greatest novels in the language, James Joyce's Ulysses (1922). The book's monumental reputation, together with its perceived difficulty of style and subject, is both intriguing and off-putting to prospective readers, and for many people, including graduates of English, it remains one of the great books that they have not read. But it is a deeply rewarding work of art. The point of this course will be to allow interested students to read Ulysses in the supportive and illuminating context of guided class discussions, group work and regular short pieces of writing in different genres. The focus of the course will be on learning together and on reading together.